Cities of Sin

Hendrik De Leeuw

Verlag: Willey Book Company, NY, 1943

Beschreibung

Condition: Boards have bumping and chipping. Pages are clean with the exception of inscription and original owners name inside front cover. Binding is loose, but secure. Dust jacket has edge chipping and some open tears. Description: Not only does the author lift the veil from the romantic falsehoods told in novels of the charming geisha girls and their less fortunate sisters, the Yoshiwara Juju girls - "the Lotus in the Mud," but he shows that the horrible life of degradation that thy lead "is primarily due to the teachings of Buddha and Confucius, in whose dogmas the sex-antagonized ecclesiastical mind has surpassed itself in associating women with temptation, while it regards her as an unclean thing, a scapegoat and an obstacle to peace and happiness." In further discussion of the sex system of Japan, he points out that there is no such thing as romantic love in the Occidental sense of the word. The only love recognized in Japan is filial love, while sex "has been rigidly kept within the realms of appetite." Supported by irrefutable evidence and convincing facts, Mr. De Leeuw issues a challenge to our modern civilization - a challenge all the more important because of the post war influence the western world will have to exert. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1705896219218

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Cities of Sin

Verlag: Willey Book Company, NY

Erscheinungsdatum: 1943

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Fair

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Poor