Explores the bleak, grim, and resilient wartime lives of ordinary people in China, the Philippines, Japan, Indonesia, Korea, and Vietnam between 1850-1975.
STEWART LONE is Professor of modern Northeast Asian
social history, University of New South Wales (campus at The
Australian Defense Force Academy). He is the author of Korea Since
1850 (1993), Japan's First Modern War (1994),
Army, Empire and Politics in Meiji Japan (2000), and The Japanese
Community in Brazil 1908-1940.
The first chapter in this history collection describes changes in
Chinese practice imposed by the Taipings in 1853 while the last
chapter characterizes the opportunities and culture available to
both rural and urban dwellers in South Vietnam between 1965 and
1975. In between, academic contributors revisit the social and
economic variations experienced by civilians during the Philippine
Revolution, the Wars of Meiji Japan, WW II Japan and Indonesia, and
the Korean War. Black and white drawings and photographs are
provided.
*Reference & Research Book News*
. . . should prove of interest even to historians who (like the
present reviewer), do not specialize in Asia. . . . Daily Lives in
Wartime Asia is a fascinating collection . . .
*The Historian*
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