This book considers literary images of Japan created by David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Tan Twan Eng to examine the influence of Japanese imperialism and its legacy at a time when culture was appropriated as route to governmentality and violence justified as root to peace.
Ching-chih Wang is Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Applied Linguistics, National Taipei University, Taiwan. She graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University and her PhD focused on the development of the Japanese empire and Sino-Japanese wars. She specializes in contemporary English novels study, postcolonial studies and Japan in British fiction.