... theory advanced is provisionally assessed through an examination of a key battle in the Russo-Japanese War—an engagement that Japan won but, by all conventional measures of military power, it should have lost. The paper concludes with a discussion of open questions raised by the claim as well...

... understandings of gender and disability proved more flexible in Russia than in the West. disability gender masculinity mental illness Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder psychiatry Russia Russo-Japanese War shell shock First World War In one of his final speeches, George L. Mosse declared that early...

...Globalization, imperialism, and nationalization reached a climax at the turn of the nineteenth century. In British India, the Russo-Japanese War and the swadeshi movement pointed at a new quality of world-wide interconnectedness. Simultaneously, the idea of ‘Asianism’ preoccupied many intellectuals...

... court of Mongolia during the Russo-Japanese War aided the Japanese military in the region, and she was recognized as a patriotic spy who put herself in danger in the service of her country. This chapter begins by situating Kawahara in the sociohistorical landscape of the mid-Meiji period...

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...This chapter illustrates how the Ilchinhoe came forward both in local arenas and on the national stage during the Russo-Japanese War and how its forceful emergence riled the Korean monarch, the Korean ruling elite, and the Japanese. When the war began, the Ilchinhoe and the converted Tonghaks most...

.... Second, the nation enjoyed what Benedict Anderson called “print capitalism” during the Edo period, which enabled the written language to circulate widely. The third condition was the Japanese victory at the end of the Russo-Japanese War. The war held a symbolic meaning as it was the first time that a non...

... describes the mines’ early years, from their opening by Chinese entrepreneurs following the Boxer Uprising to their seizure by Japanese forces during the Russo-Japanese War. It then traces how Japanese imperialists—particularly those with the colonial South Manchuria Railway Company that ran the mines...

...-born and US-born populations. Source: US Census, 1910, 1920, 1930, and 1940. Fig. I.3 A political cartoon published in the United States during the Russo-Japanese War depicts Japan, the “Yellow Peril,” as a harbinger of “Justice, Progressiveness, Humaneness, Enlightenment, Tolerance [and] Religious...

..., 1904. Underwood & Underwood. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-stereo-1s32318. Chapter 1 explains how the United States came to welcome Japan into the circle of great powers during the Russo-Japanese War. Japan’s inclusion was tentative. For its full inclusion, American...

... officials remains an obstacle. Meanwhile, the press reveals Scidmore as the author of the anonymously published novel As the Hague Ordains (1907), based on her reporting of Russian POWs in Japan during the Russo–Japanese War. The emperor of Japan awards Scidmore a medal for her writing...

... of Traps and Snares, 1909). Menzan Zuihō Zhuangzi Ekkei Shaku Sōen Mokurai Sōen Shungai Tōsen Zen practices Zen at War Zen War Stories Uemura Sōkō Sōen Rinzai Zen Senteiroku Russo-Japanese War world’s parliament of religions Kōgaku Sōen (1860–1919), ¹ known during his...

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... the scenes. During the early phase of the Russo-Japanese War in the spring of 1904, American investment banker Jacob Schiff secured several loans to back Japan and accelerate the overthrow of the tsar. He tried convincing Morgan and other American business tycoons to boycott Russia. Schiff’s advocacy...

...Mencken tried to rehabilitate the Herald after the Baltimore Fire. In his desperation, he abandoned his own principles and printed a fabricated story about the Russo-Japanese war. Restless, he came to the realization that journalism was fleeting, and that “the man who devotes his...

... overseas expansion, with particular reference to its unique relationship with Japan. It also analyzes Jack London's Russo-Japanese War correspondence and Lafcadio Hearn's non-fiction books about Japan to highlight an example of what the philosopher Charles Taylor calls “alternative modernities...

...This chapter describes how the term “world” becomes a category of racial meaning. Tracking the new coining of phrases such as “colored world,” “yellow world,” and “brown world” during and after the Russo-Japanese War, it shows the ways in which this discourse constructs new ways of seeing...

...The major event to consume foreign correspondents in China after the onslaught of the Boxers was the 1904–05 Russo-Japanese War. As it was for modern warfare, the Russo-Japanese War was revolutionary for modern photography. Arguably, the strongest images of the war came from the Russian...

...This chapter analyzes the projected image of disabled veterans as icons of noble sacrifice that gained visibility in wartime Japan. Due mainly to official efforts, the Russo-Japanese War image of seemingly indolent crippled soldiers was replaced by visions of heroic disabled veterans who deserve...

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