hiro-umich

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About me

Gender Male
Location United States
Introduction I am a doctoral student in sociology. From May 2005 through March 2006 I conducted fieldwork in Japan. I am now writing up my dissertation "Cosmopolitan Nationalism: The Development of Transnationality in Japanese Children and Adolescents." My Japanese blog can be found at http://blog.livedoor.jp/postnationalism/
Interests Yoga, Classical Music, Piano, Indian Food, Film, Chai, Mango Lassi
Favorite Movies Eisenstein, Battleship Potemkin, Tarkovsky, Solaris, Kieslowski, Decalogue, Fellini, 8 1/2, Rossellini, Open City, Antonioni, La Notte, Truffaut, The Antoine Doinel Series, Godard, Fassbinder, The RWF Trilogy
Favorite Music Stravinsky, Bach, Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart, Dvorak, Bartok, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, Shostakovich, Bizet
Favorite Books Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, Kafka, The Trial, The Castle, Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, I. B. Singer, In My Father's Court, Marquez, Love in the Time of Colera, Stendhal, The Red and the Black, The Charterhouse of Parma, Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, Rushdie, The Satanic Verses, Midnight's Children, Mahfouz, The Cairo Trilogy