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Japanese Society at War - Naoko Shimazu

Japanese Society at War

Death, Memory and the Russo-Japanese War

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Buch | Hardcover
354 Seiten
2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-85934-9 (ISBN)
CHF 108,20 inkl. MwSt
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.
As the first international conflict of the twentieth century, the Russo-Japanese War attracted much contemporary global interest. This text was the first full-length study to examine the war from the perspective of its impact on Japanese society, and sheds light on its implications for modern Japan. What did the war mean to the Japanese people and how did they respond to it? Naoko Shimazu presents a fascinating and highly innovative account of the attitudes of ordinary Japanese people towards the war through a wide range of sources including personal diaries, letters, and contemporary images. She deals with themes such as conscripts and battlefield death, war commemoration, heroic myths, and war in popular culture. Challenging the orthodox view of Meiji Japan as monolithic, she shows that there existed a complex and ambivalent relationship between the Japanese state and society.

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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 5.3.2009
Reihe/Serie Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 235 mm
Gewicht 710 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
ISBN-10 0-521-85934-4 / 0521859344
ISBN-13 978-0-521-85934-9 / 9780521859349
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