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Tsuji Masahiro
Department Undergraduate School , School of Business Administration Position Professor |
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| Language | Japanese |
| Publication Date | 2021/03 |
| Type | Bulletin of Universities and Institutes |
| Title | The journey to China of W.H.Auden and Isherwood and their political and religious conversion |
| Contribution Type | Sole-authored |
| Journal Type | Japan |
| Volume, Issue, Page | pp.117-133 |
| Total page number | 17 |
| Author and coauthor | TSUJI Masahiro |
| Details | The purpose of this study is to show that W.H.Auden’s critical turning point of his thinking lies in his journey to wartime China with Christopher Isherwood and his experience of seeing directly with his own eyes the Japanese army’s aggression in China.
From February 1938 to June, he and Isherwood visited China including Hongkong, Hankow and Shanghai. They met the British ambassador, newspaper reporters, missionaries and finally at Hankow Madam Chiang Kai-shek and Mr Chiang Kai-shek. They also met four Japanese elites in Shanghai. After they returned to England by way of New York, Auden and Isherwood made speech tours around England but both of them became depressed after a while. My point is, they became depressed because while denouncing Japanese invasion repeatedly they must have noticed the possibility of similar brutality of British Empire’s invasion, making colonies all over the world. |
| URL for researchmap | https://m-repo.lib.meiji.ac.jp/dspace/bitstream/10291/21851/1/jinbunkagakukiyo_88_117.pdf |