Aaron William Moore
Biographic Data
| ID | 284467 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aaron William Moore |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aaron William |
| FAMILY NAME | Moore |
| SIGNATURE | MOORE A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6370-5751 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 20 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Air Defense in Wartime Japan
Chinese Documentary Source Materials Relating to World War ii
While access to library and archival collections in mainland China remains unclear due to the ongoing covid -19 pandemic and increasing government scrutiny, past experiences in Chinese archives are still relevant for scholars going forward, in the event that the People’s Republic of China reopens the doors to these collections. In surveying the digital, print publication, and manuscript collections pertaining to the Chinese history of World War i…
Children We Have Lost: Diaries, Memoirs, and Museum Displays of Childhood and Youth in Wartime Japan
By analysing diaries, memoirs, and material objects used in WWII memorial museum spaces, Moore discusses how the ‘lost child’ and ‘lost youth’ can encourage reconsiderations of the wartime past. Texts by young people and objects that were part of their lives inspire a desire to engage with children ‘lost’ to the war years, even if it is one’s own youth. The ‘war’ they recorded and experienced was very different than the one recorded by adult lead…
The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann
Reviewed by: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann Aaron William Moore (bio) The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952. By Reto Hofmann. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2015. x, 203 pages. $35.00. Historians of Japan have often observed that the most sensible point of comparison for Japan in the 1930s was not Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy. Reto Hofmann’s slender new volume uses government and news media [End Page …
China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki
17 Codex A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Grassroots Fascism, Greater Asianism, and the Centrality of the Sino- Japanese War Ethan Mark I first encountered GrassrootsFascism in the context of a Japanese history graduate seminar at Columbia University way back in 1991. At the time, I was gearing up for a dissertation project on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during W…
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
From Individual Child to War Youth: The Construction of Collective Experience among Evacuated Japanese Children during World War II
Studies of childhood in Japan frequently neglect to engage with the texts and images that young people produced, focusing instead on the adult imagination of youth. By looking solely at adults’ conceptions, we miss the importance of other children in forming their peers’ subjectivity. By analyzing the diaries, letters, postcards, yosegaki, and artwork of evacuated children during World War II, this article shows how adults framed the process of l…
Growing Up in Nationalist China: Self-Representation in the Personal Documents of Children and Youth, 1927–1949
The study of childhood and youth in modern China features few investigations that make engagement with personal documents by young people their focus. In order to understand how images of childhood and youth constructed by adults affected juvenile subjectivity, it is necessary to begin exploring how young people in China expressed themselves. This article first highlights the importance of youth in the Republican culture of mass education, when n…
Michael Schiltz, The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937
The provocative main argument in this recent volume of economic history has gained new currency following the financial crisis: namely, that economic policy is often a deeply political endeavour. For some, this position constitutes preaching to the choir, but there are still plenty of economists, historians, and members of the public who believe in the apolitical, scientific, and ‘free’ nature of capitalism and its markets. Michael Schlitz shows …
Nationalism In Northeast Asia Since 1945
An examination of primarily Chinese and Japanese nationalism (with a brief mention of Korea), this chapter will argue that contradictions within nationalist discourse lead to stronger and more strident articulations in the postwar era. The chapter covers the importance of nationalism to Maoist anti-imperialism, the struggle over national legitimacy between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists, the extreme difficulty of contending with minority…
Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
Writing War examines over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945. As he describes conflicts that have often been overlooked by historians, Aaron William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of modern identity
China in World War II, 1937-1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China ('the War of Resistance to Japan') to a much more central place in historical interpretation. Among the areas that this is…
The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan
This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of historical memory narratives in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. I argue that veterans, who had long established a 'language community' with a particular way to speak about the war, found it difficult to communicate with post-war audiences that did not share that experience. The paper analyses six categories of 'memory writing' that veterans used to engage with memory deba…
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938
The Chimera of Privacy: Reading Self-Discipline in Japanese Diaries from the Second World War (1937-1945)
This article has two main goals for its examination of wartime diaries: (1) to argue against the idea that a diary's reliability is directly related to the degree of privacy that its author enjoyed, and (2) to suggest an alternate use for these texts by scholars-namely, the construction of the author's concept of self through acts of "self-discipline." The article briefly outlines military diary writing and reportage in modern Japan, showing how …
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 - 1938
(2009). Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 34, Revisiting Military Affairs from ROC to PRC, pp. 30-54
Essential Ingredients of Truth: Japanese Soldiers' Diaries in the Asia Pacific War
In the last decade, numerous film and print media treatments of the Second World War have focused on the "soldier's perspective." Because the wartime generation is now rapidly disappearing, postwar generations have become especially eager to know the war. In particular, there is a hunger to learn how it was experienced by ordinary servicemen-a focus popularized most effectively by historian John Keegan (and film directors such as Clint Eastwood, …
China in World War II, 1937-1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China ('the War of Resistance to Japan') to a much more central place in historical interpretation. Among the areas that this is…
Growing Up in Nationalist China: Self-Representation in the Personal Documents of Children and Youth, 1927–1949
The study of childhood and youth in modern China features few investigations that make engagement with personal documents by young people their focus. In order to understand how images of childhood and youth constructed by adults affected juvenile subjectivity, it is necessary to begin exploring how young people in China expressed themselves. This article first highlights the importance of youth in the Republican culture of mass education, when n…
The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan
This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of historical memory narratives in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. I argue that veterans, who had long established a 'language community' with a particular way to speak about the war, found it difficult to communicate with post-war audiences that did not share that experience. The paper analyses six categories of 'memory writing' that veterans used to engage with memory deba…
Children We Have Lost: Diaries, Memoirs, and Museum Displays of Childhood and Youth in Wartime Japan
By analysing diaries, memoirs, and material objects used in WWII memorial museum spaces, Moore discusses how the ‘lost child’ and ‘lost youth’ can encourage reconsiderations of the wartime past. Texts by young people and objects that were part of their lives inspire a desire to engage with children ‘lost’ to the war years, even if it is one’s own youth. The ‘war’ they recorded and experienced was very different than the one recorded by adult lead…
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
The Chimera of Privacy: Reading Self-Discipline in Japanese Diaries from the Second World War (1937-1945)
This article has two main goals for its examination of wartime diaries: (1) to argue against the idea that a diary's reliability is directly related to the degree of privacy that its author enjoyed, and (2) to suggest an alternate use for these texts by scholars-namely, the construction of the author's concept of self through acts of "self-discipline." The article briefly outlines military diary writing and reportage in modern Japan, showing how …
Essential Ingredients of Truth: Japanese Soldiers' Diaries in the Asia Pacific War
In the last decade, numerous film and print media treatments of the Second World War have focused on the "soldier's perspective." Because the wartime generation is now rapidly disappearing, postwar generations have become especially eager to know the war. In particular, there is a hunger to learn how it was experienced by ordinary servicemen-a focus popularized most effectively by historian John Keegan (and film directors such as Clint Eastwood, …
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 - 1938
(2009). Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938. Twentieth-Century China: Vol. 34, Revisiting Military Affairs from ROC to PRC, pp. 30-54
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938
Talk About Heroes: Expressions of Self-Mobilization and Despair in Chinese War Diaries, 1911 – 1938
The Chimera of Privacy: Reading Self-Discipline in Japanese Diaries from the Second World War (1937-1945)
This article has two main goals for its examination of wartime diaries: (1) to argue against the idea that a diary's reliability is directly related to the degree of privacy that its author enjoyed, and (2) to suggest an alternate use for these texts by scholars-namely, the construction of the author's concept of self through acts of "self-discipline." The article briefly outlines military diary writing and reportage in modern Japan, showing how …
China in World War II, 1937-1945: Experience, Memory, and Legacy
China's long war against Japan from 1937 to 1945 has remained in the shadows of historiography until recently, both in China and abroad. In recent years, the opening of archives and a widening of the opportunity to discuss the more controversial aspects of the wartime period in China itself have restored World War II in China ('the War of Resistance to Japan') to a much more central place in historical interpretation. Among the areas that this is…
The Problem of Changing Language Communities: Veterans and Memory Writing in China, Taiwan, and Japan
This paper examines the role that veterans played in the construction of historical memory narratives in mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan. I argue that veterans, who had long established a 'language community' with a particular way to speak about the war, found it difficult to communicate with post-war audiences that did not share that experience. The paper analyses six categories of 'memory writing' that veterans used to engage with memory deba…
Nationalism In Northeast Asia Since 1945
An examination of primarily Chinese and Japanese nationalism (with a brief mention of Korea), this chapter will argue that contradictions within nationalist discourse lead to stronger and more strident articulations in the postwar era. The chapter covers the importance of nationalism to Maoist anti-imperialism, the struggle over national legitimacy between the Chinese Nationalists and Communists, the extreme difficulty of contending with minority…
Writing War: Soldiers Record the Japanese Empire
Writing War examines over two hundred diaries, and many more letters, postcards, and memoirs, written by Chinese, Japanese, and American servicemen in the Pacific from 1937 to 1945. As he describes conflicts that have often been overlooked by historians, Aaron William Moore reflects on diaries as tools in the construction of modern identity
Michael Schiltz, The Money Doctors from Japan: Finance, Imperialism, and the Building of the Yen Bloc, 1895–1937
The provocative main argument in this recent volume of economic history has gained new currency following the financial crisis: namely, that economic policy is often a deeply political endeavour. For some, this position constitutes preaching to the choir, but there are still plenty of economists, historians, and members of the public who believe in the apolitical, scientific, and ‘free’ nature of capitalism and its markets. Michael Schlitz shows …
China's War Reporters: The Legacy of Resistance against Japan
A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki
17 Codex A Collaborative Review of Grassroots Fascism: The War Experience of the Japanese People by Yoshimi Yoshiaki Grassroots Fascism, Greater Asianism, and the Centrality of the Sino- Japanese War Ethan Mark I first encountered GrassrootsFascism in the context of a Japanese history graduate seminar at Columbia University way back in 1991. At the time, I was gearing up for a dissertation project on the Japanese occupation of Indonesia during W…
Historical Interrogations of Japanese Children amid Disaster and War, 1920–1945
Historical research on modern Japan has often given insufficient attention to the lives and experiences of children and young people. However, this situation is beginning to change, as historians start to exploit the rich documentary resources, including children’s diaries and letters, that have been collected by institutions across Japan. Japanese children’s responses to disaster and war are especially well documented, and the articles in this s…
From Individual Child to War Youth: The Construction of Collective Experience among Evacuated Japanese Children during World War II
Studies of childhood in Japan frequently neglect to engage with the texts and images that young people produced, focusing instead on the adult imagination of youth. By looking solely at adults’ conceptions, we miss the importance of other children in forming their peers’ subjectivity. By analyzing the diaries, letters, postcards, yosegaki, and artwork of evacuated children during World War II, this article shows how adults framed the process of l…
Growing Up in Nationalist China: Self-Representation in the Personal Documents of Children and Youth, 1927–1949
The study of childhood and youth in modern China features few investigations that make engagement with personal documents by young people their focus. In order to understand how images of childhood and youth constructed by adults affected juvenile subjectivity, it is necessary to begin exploring how young people in China expressed themselves. This article first highlights the importance of youth in the Republican culture of mass education, when n…
The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann
Reviewed by: The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952 by Reto Hofmann Aaron William Moore (bio) The Fascist Effect: Japan and Italy, 1915–1952. By Reto Hofmann. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2015. x, 203 pages. $35.00. Historians of Japan have often observed that the most sensible point of comparison for Japan in the 1930s was not Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy. Reto Hofmann’s slender new volume uses government and news media [End Page …
Children We Have Lost: Diaries, Memoirs, and Museum Displays of Childhood and Youth in Wartime Japan
By analysing diaries, memoirs, and material objects used in WWII memorial museum spaces, Moore discusses how the ‘lost child’ and ‘lost youth’ can encourage reconsiderations of the wartime past. Texts by young people and objects that were part of their lives inspire a desire to engage with children ‘lost’ to the war years, even if it is one’s own youth. The ‘war’ they recorded and experienced was very different than the one recorded by adult lead…
Chinese Documentary Source Materials Relating to World War ii
While access to library and archival collections in mainland China remains unclear due to the ongoing covid -19 pandemic and increasing government scrutiny, past experiences in Chinese archives are still relevant for scholars going forward, in the event that the People’s Republic of China reopens the doors to these collections. In surveying the digital, print publication, and manuscript collections pertaining to the Chinese history of World War i…
Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Air Defense in Wartime Japan
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