Writing War
Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
1st Edition
Published on 3. June 2013
388 pages
978-0-674-07539-9 (ISBN)
Description
Writing War examines over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945. As he describes conflicts that have often been overlooked by historians, Aaron William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of modern identity.
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Moore Aaron William :
Aaron William Moore is Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of Manchester.
Aaron William Moore is Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of Manchester.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Note to the Reader
- Introduction: World War, Diary Writing, and the Self
- 1. Talk about Heroes: Military Diaries in the Modern World
- 2. Self- Mobilization and the Discipline of the Battlefield: The Battle for Shanghai and Northern China
- 3. Assembling the "New Order": Reconstitution of Self through Diary Writing
- 4. The Unbearable Likeness of Being: The Transnational Phenomenon of Self-Discipline during the Pacific War
- 5. The Physics of Writing War: Recording the Destruction of the Japanese Empire
- 6. The Consequences of Self-Discipline: Postwar Historical Memory and Veterans' Narratives
- Conclusion: The Peril of Self-Discipline
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography of War Diaries
- Acknowledgments
- Index
