The Russo-Japanese War in Cultural Perspective, 1904-05

ISBN-13: 9780312221614 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 213 str.

David Wells; Sandra Wilson

Opis

The Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5 has been widely seen as a historical turning point. This book goes beyond the military and world political grand narratives to examine the war's social, cultural, literary, and intellectual impact. Containing contributions by established scholars in the fields of military history and the history and literature of both Russia and Japan, it offers for the first time in English a comparative perspective on symbolic meaning of the conflict.

Recenzje

"[the book is] quite relevant to our contemporary issues despite its concern with the war of almost a century ago." - Journal of Asian Studies

"This book now fills the gap by gathering specialists of both Russia and Japan...succeeds in showing that the Russo-Japanese war left a deep impact on the historical memory of Russians and Japanese alike." - Russian Review

Spis treści

Acknowledgements Note on Names and Dates Notes on Contributors Foreword Introduction Firepower or Willpower?: The Unlearned Military Lessons of the Russo-Japanese War; S.P.MacKenzie Traditions of War Literature in Medieval Japan: A Study of the Heike Monogatari ; R.Pandey Japanese Literary Responses to the Russo-Japanese War; T.Aoyama Paradigms of War in Russian Literature from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century; D.Wells The Russo-Japanese War in Russian Literature; D.Wells Easts and Wests Befuddled: Russian Intellegentsia Responses to the Russo-Japanese War; A.Jones The Russo-Japanese War and Japan: Politics, Nationalism and Historical Memory; S.Wilson Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

TOMOKO AOYAMA Lecturer in Japanese, University of Queensland ADRIAN JONES Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University S.P. MACKENZIE Associate Professor in History, University of South Carolina RAJYASHREE PANDEY Senior Lecturer in Japanese, La Trobe University