Sheep''s Song - A Writer''s Reminiscences of Japan and the World

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About the author

Critic, novelist, literary historian, and dramatist Kato Shuichi is Guest Professor of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. He is author of many works, including a three-volume History of Japanese Literature (1979-83) and Form, Style, Tradition: Reflections on Japanese Art and Society (1971) and coauthor of Six Lives, Six Deaths: Portraits from Modern Japan (1979). Chia-ning Chang is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of California, Davis.

Summary

An autobiography of Kato Shuichi, a cultural critic, literary historian, novelist, poet, and physician. It reconstructs his spiritual and intellectual journey from the militarist era of prewar Japan to the dynamic postwar landscapes of Japan and Europe. It interprets modern Japan and its tumultuous relations with the outside world.

Product details

• Authors: Sha3/4ichi Kata[, Shuichi Kato, Shûichi Katô, Katô/Chang, Kato Shuichi
• Assisted by: Chia-Ning Chang (Editor), Shûichi Katô (Editor), Chia-Ning Chang (Translation), Chia-ning Chang (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 03.05.1999
• EAN: 9780520219793
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21979-3
• No. of pages: 506
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Japan, Europe, Cultural Studies, European History, Autobiography: general, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Asian History, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences