The historical backdrop : foreign men and Japanese women in old Nagasaki -- Through the filter of literature : the impact of Pierre Loti's novel Madame Chrysanthme -- True, but also untrue : the tale of Madame Butterfly -- David Belasco, Giacomo Puccini and the "Yellow peril" -- Prima donna Miura Tamaki and Nagasaki's journey to hell -- Madame Butterfly in postwar Japan and beyond.
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