Soldiers Alive / Ishikawa Tatsuzo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tatsuzo, Ishikawa, author.

Contributor:

Cipriš, Željko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Literature and the war.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945.

Local Subjects:

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--Literature and the war.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 p.)

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer would produce a work wholly different from the lyrical and sanitized war reports then in circulation. They could not predict, however, that Ishikawa would write an unsettling novella so grimly realistic it would promptly be banned and lead to the author's conviction on charges of "disturbing peace and order." Decades later, Soldiers Alive remains a deeply disturbing and eye-opening account of the Japanese march on Nanking and its aftermath. In its unforgettable depiction of an ostensibly altruistic war's devastating effects on the soldiers who fought it and the civilians they presumed to "liberate," Ishikawa's work retains its power to shock, inform, and provoke.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

About the Translator

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9780824864378

0824864379

OCLC:

1076411093