Book & Film Groups
Pitt NCTA Alumni Book Group – Three Tigers One Mountain
A Chinese proverb warns that "Two Tigers cannot share the same mountain", but what happens when there are three tigers competing for the same territory?
Journalist Micheal Booth claims that his long fascination with Asia prompted some nagging questions for him. "Why can't the nations of East Asia get along? How deep, really, is the enmity among Japan, Korea, and China, and what keeps it alive today?" In "Three Tigers, One Mountain" he sets out on a journey through Japan, China, Korea, and Taiwan to explore those questions and he reports that ongoing territorial disputes and the legacy of Japanese imperialism are not past history, but rather the root causes of the ongoing, deep-seated animosity between and among these nations. In addition to the book itself we will read and discuss occasional news articles that pertain directly to the book's topics.