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

by D. Wells (Editor), S. Wilson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312221614
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	08/24/1999
Edition description:	1999
Pages:	213
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

David Wells is a Librarian at Curtin University of Technology in Perth.

Sandra Wilson is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Japanese Studies Program at Murdoch University, Perth.

Table of Contents

Introduction--Sandra Wilson & David Wells
• Willpower or Firepower? 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 --Rajyashree Pandey
• Japanese Literary Responses to the Russo-Japanese War--Tomoko Aoyama
• Paradigms of War in Russian Literature from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century--David Wells
• The Russo-Japanese War in Russian Literature--David Wells
• Easts and Wests Befuddled: Russian Intelligentsia Responses to the Russo-Japanese War--Adrian Jones
• The Russo-Japanese War and Japan: Politics, Nationalism, and Historical Memory--Sandra Wilson

Editorial Reviews

"[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

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