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001 2013047787
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050 00 $aML429.G668$bA3 2014
082 00 $a909.82092$aB$223
100 1 $aGordon, Beate,$eauthor.
245 14 $aThe only woman in the room :$ba memoir of Japan, human rights, and the arts /$cBeate Sirota Gordon.
264 1 $aChicago ;$aLondon :$bThe University of Chicago Press,$c2014.
264 4 $c©2014
300 $a177 pages :$billustrations ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $aA vivid and very personal account of one woman's life in Europe, prewar Japan, and the United States. As the daughter of renowned Russian pianist Leo Sirota, Beate Gordon grew up in the cosmopolitan world of the concert tour, then settled in Japan in the 1930s. During World War II, while her parents remained in Japan under secret service surveillance, Gordon lived alone in the United States, monitoring Tokyo Radio in five languages for the government and later writing radio propaganda. She recounts her dramatic reunion with her parents in Tokyo, where she worked in General MacArthur's headquarters, and evokes the postwar suffering in defeated Japan. Her intimate description of helping draft the women's rights section of Japan's new constitution is an astonishing record of history in the making. On returning to the States in 1947, Mrs. Gordon became a cultural impresario, bringing artists, dancers, writers, and musicians from all over to the United States. Her adventures in search of performing artists in such remote and exotic places as Mongolia, Tibet, India, and Indonesia make for hilarious and sometimes hair-raising anecdotes.
600 10 $aGordon, Beate.
650 0 $aImpresarios$zUnited States$vBiography.
651 0 $aJapan$xDescription and travel.
650 0 $aArts$zAsia.