Keene So Lovely a Country Will Never Perish

Wartime Diaries of Japanese Writers
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-231-52272-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm

Reihe: Asia Perspectives: History, Society, and Culture

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Keene, Donald

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Sammlungen, Anthologien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Ost- & Südostasiatische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Wartime Diaries
1. The Day the War Began
2. The Birth of "Greater East Asia"
3. False Victories and Real Defeats
4. A Dismal New Year
5. On the Eve
6. The Jade Voice
7. The Days After
8. The Revival of Literature
9. Rejection of the War
10. Under the Occupation
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Leseproben

"So lovely a country will never perish!. Just supposing, one chance in a million, it actually perishes, I will still rejoice that I had the privilege of being born in this country, rather than any other country in the world, in this, of all periods of mankind. The Japanese people in recent times have known only victory. The Japanese, for the first time, have been taught what it means to be completely defeated. Sometimes one loses; sometimes one wins. A people that has not experienced both victory and defeat is still immature. Let us consider that we have at last come of age."&mdashTokugawa Musei

Über Autor(innen)

Donald Keene is Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature and University Professor Emeritus at Columbia University. He is the author of more than thirty books, including Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan; Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841; and Emperor of Japan: Meiji and His World, as well as a definitive multivolume history of Japanese literature.