In the following review, Lowitz discusses the opposing forces of tradition and modernity in Kawabata's The Old Capital.
Though Yasunari Kawabata, the only Japanese novelist to receive the No...
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In the following review, Miyama Ochner analyzes the problems involved in translating Kawabata's work and asserts that J. Martin Holman's translation of Kawabata's The Old Capital ...
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SINGAPORE, Jan 8 (Reuters) - Singapore's elder statesman
Lee Kuan Yew has criticised Myanmar's military junta, saying
decisions such as the building of a new capital from scratch
were irrational, ...
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Vienna (dpa) - Like most urban centres, Austria's capital Vienna
is bursting at the seams. But plans by Vienna's city fathers to build
a new district from scratch are meetin...
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Vienna (dpa) - "Eh, ciao..." When snow falls in Vienna, streets
are illuminated by Christmas lights and the smell of mulled wine
wafts through the city, the ...
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On the streets of Yangon, it is often said Myanmar is ruled not only by a gun-wielding junta but by a businessman named Tay Za, who is thought to have a finger in every lucrative pie and is now a t...
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Critical Review by Leza Lowitz
S'pore's Lee criticises Myanmar military rulers
