TY - BOOK AU - WELLS David (ed.) AU - WILSON Sandra (ed.) TI - Russo-Japanese war in cultural perspective, 1904-05 SN - 0333637429 (hbk.): PY - 1999/// CY - Basingstoke, UK PB - Macmillan Press KW - RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR, 1904-1905 N2 - Based on a wide range of sources in Russian, Japanese and other languages, this collection of essays examines the war's social, cultural, literary and intellectual impact in its historical context. Although the military history of the war is covered the primary focus is on the symbolic meaning of the conflict which, for the first time in modern history, saw an Asian nation competing with a European country and overturning the balance of power ER -