The China lover
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ian Buruma.
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781594201943
Subjects: Actresses -- Japan -- Fiction; Japan -- History -- Allied occupation, 1945-1952 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In Buruma's reimagining of the life of Yamaguchi Yoshiko, a Japanese torn among patriotism for her parents, a homeland, worldly ambition, and sympathy for the Chinese, she would reflect almost exactly the twists and turns in the history of modern Japan.