Robert Thomas Tierney: 2 books
Monster of the Twentieth Century
Kotoku Shusui and Japan's First Anti-Imperialist Movement
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
This extended monograph examines the work of the radical journalist Kotoku Shusui and Japan’s anti-imperialist movement of the early twentieth century. It includes the first English translation of Imperialism (Teikokushugi), Kotoku’s classic 1901 work.
Kotoku Shusui was a Japanese socialist,...
Tropics of Savagery
The Culture of Japanese Empire in Comparative Frame
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Tropics of Savagery is an incisive and provocative study of the figures and tropes of "savagery" in Japanese colonial culture. Through a rigorous analysis of literary works, ethnographic studies, and a variety of other discourses, Robert Thomas Tierney demonstrates how imperial Japan constructed...