Japanese Society at War - Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War - Volume 28

Informationen zum Autor Naoko Shimazu's major publications include Imagining Japan in Post-war East Asia (co-editor, 2013), Nationalisms in Japan (editor, 2006) and Japan, Race and Equality: The Racial Equality Proposal of 1919 (1998). She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Professorial Associate of the Japan Research Centre at SOAS, University of London, Associate of MEARC at Leiden University, and a former Japan Foundation Fellow. She serves on the editorial boards of Japan Forum, Modern Asian Studies, Reviews in History, and Theory, Culture and Society. Her current major project is a monograph, Diplomacy as Theatre: Asian and African Performances at the Bandung Conference of 1955. Klappentext A social and cultural history of the impact of the Russo-Japanese War and its implications for modern Japan. Zusammenfassung The Russo-Japanese War was the first international conflict of the twentieth century. Presenting fascinating insights into the attitudes of ordinary Japanese people towards the war! this innovative study sheds light on the social and political complexities of Japanese society during this period and the war's implications for modern Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Society in conflict; 2. Journey of farewell; 3. Honourable war death; 4. Local patriots; 5. Love thy enemy; 6. God of war; 7. War in popular cultural memory; Epilogue.

Product details

• Authors: Naoko Shimazu, Shimazu Naoko
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2011
• EAN: 9780521294775
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29477-5
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 230 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare; Studies in the Social and Cult; Print on demand; Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book; HISTORY / World, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, General and world history