‘Curious Fridays’ at the MJC. ‘Image(s) du Japon: du mythe de Cipango à la super-puissance culturelle’.
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Lecture by Alice Berthon, lecturer at Grenoble University and Japan specialist.
If there is one constant in the West's representation of Japan, it is that the archipelago exerts a great fascination and leaves no one indifferent. From Marco Polo's first description to today's image of Japan as a cultural superpower, this lecture will look at these representations and grasp some of the mechanisms behind them, as well as looking at Japan's current cultural policy, which is very much oriented...