When the editors of Chuo koron, Japan's leading liberal magazine,
sent the prize-winning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo 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.
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