Research Catalog

Title

Writing war : soldiers record the Japanese Empire / Aaron William Moore.

Author

Moore, Aaron William, 1977-

Publication

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2013]

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Description

vi, 378 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

Historians have made widespread use of diaries to tell the story of World War II in Europe but have paid little attention to personal accounts from the Asia-Pacific Theater. This book examines over 200 diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945.

Subject

• 1939-1945
• World War, 1939-1945 > Pacific Area > Diaries
• World War, 1939-1945 > Japan > Diaries
• World War, 1939-1945 > China > Diaries
• Soldiers' writings, American > History and criticism
• Soldiers' writings, Chinese > History and criticism
• Soldiers' writings, Japanese > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• diaries.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Diaries
• Journaux intimes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: World War, diary writing, and the self -- Talk about heroes: military diaries in the modern world -- Self-mobilization and the discipline of the battlefield: the battle for Shanghai and northern China -- Assembling the "new order": reconstitution of self through diary writing -- The unbearable likeness of being: the transnational phenomenon of self-discipline during the Pacific War -- The physics of writing war: recording the destruction of the Japanese Empire -- The consequences of self-discipline: postwar historical memory and veterans' narratives -- Conclusion: the peril of self-discipline.

ISBN

9780674059061 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012041384

OCLC

818293244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library