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2015., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes how Japan sent five girls, raised in traditional samurai households, to be educated in the United States in 1871 in order to return to Japan and raise a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Follows three of these young women as they grow up in San Francisco, learn English and Western customs, forge friendships, and then return to Japan ten years later with a goal of promoting women's education. Draws on archival research in both countries, and decades of letters between the women and their American host families.
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2003., M. E. Sharpe Call No: Ref 909 Glo Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines important encounters, exchanges, and conflicts between cultures and civilizations that profoundly influenced the course of human history.
