{"product_id":"the-gods-left-first-9780520276154","title":"The Gods Left First","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on a range of memoirs, art, poetry, and contemporary records, this title reconstructs their experience of captivity, return, and encounter with a postwar Japan that now seemed as alien as it had once been familiar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Barshay provides a chilling account of the coercive power of the state of individuals who nonetheless mature sufficiently to speak for themselves. The Gods Left First is a rich and deeply moving book.\" -- Shu Cao International Affairs \"An intensely personal book.\" -- Laura Hein Journal of Japanese Studies 41, no. 1 \"The Gods Left First is so well written that there were times I found myself engrossed as if reading a novel or viewing a film.\" Monumenta Nipponica\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Maps and Illustrations  Acknowledgments  Note on Names and Terms   I. Prologue  The Gods Left First  Sources and Method   II. The Siberian Internment in History  The Prince's Tale  The Soviet-Japanese War  Hot War to Cold  The Soviet-Japanese Conflict: Prehistory into History  Toward Internment  The Internment Remembered   III. Kazuki Yasuo and the Profane World of the Gulag  Icons of the Profane  The Red Corpse  \"My Vision Broadened Tenfold\"  The \"Siberia Style\"  From Image to Text  The Responsibility of the Artist  \"The Beauty only I Can Grasp\"   IV. Knowledge Painfully Acquired: Takasugi Ichiro and the \"Democratic Movement\" in Siberia  Thank You, Iosif Vissarionovich!  A Humanist Interprets the Gulag  Siberia, School of Democracy  Ogawa Goro Becomes Takasugi Ichiro  In the Shadow of the Northern Lights  The Gate of Hell  Toward Epiphany  Toward Return  Knowledge Painfully Acquired   V. Ishihara Yoshiro: \"My Best Self Did Not Return\"  Prologue: Ishihara Yoshiro and Viktor Frankl  The Survivor's Question  The Primitive Accumulation of Memory  The Life before the Death  Into the Gulag  At Lowest Ebb, Stirrings  Kano Buichi, Enigma  Was this Domoi?   VI. Coda  The People Stalin Didn't Care About  \"A War to Live\": Fujiwara Tei's The Shooting Stars Are Alive  The Meaning and Message of Survival   Appendix: How Many?  Bibliography  Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402862698839,"sku":"9780520276154","price":46.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520276154.jpg?v=1730481712","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-gods-left-first-9780520276154","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}