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Ruptured Histories : War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia / ed. by Rana Mitter, Sheila Miyoshi Jager.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2007]Copyright date: 2007Description: 1 online resource (400 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780674274037
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 950.4/2 22
LOC classification:
  • DS518.1 .R87 2007
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-envisioning Asia, Past and Present -- 1 Relocating War Memory at Century’s End: Japan’s Postwar Responsibility and Global Public Culture -- 2 Operations of Memory “Comfort Women” and the World -- 3 Living Soldiers, Re-lived Memories? Japanese Veterans and Postwar Testimony of War Atrocities -- 4 Kamikaze Today The Search for National Heroes in Contemporary Japan -- 5 Lost Men and War Criminals: Public Intellectuals at Yasukuni Shrine -- 6 The Execution of Tosaka Jun and Other Tales: Historical Amnesia, Memory, and the Question of Japan’s “Postwar” -- 7 China’s “Good War” Voices, Locations, and Generations in the Interpretation of the War of Resistance to Japan -- 8 Remembering the Century of Humiliation The Yuanming Gardens and Dagu Forts Museums -- 9 Frontiers of Memory: Conflict, Imperialism, and Official Histories in the Formation of Post–Cold War Taiwan Identity -- 10 The Korean War after the Cold War: Commemorating the Armistice Agreement in South Korea -- 11 The Korean War What Is It that We Are Remembering to Forget? -- 12 Doubly Forgotten: Korea’s Vietnam War and the Revival of Memory -- 13 Revolution, War, and Memory in Contemporary Viet Nam: An Assessment and Agenda -- Epilogue: New Global Conflict? War, Memory, and Post-9/11 Asia -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era. All the major East Asian states have undergone a profound reassessment of their experiences from World War II to Vietnam. New and at times aggressive forms of nationalism in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan have affected American security policy in the Pacific and posed a challenge to the post-communist world order. Japan has met fervent opposition to its premiers' visits to the Yasukuni shrine honoring the wartime dead. China has reclaimed a forgotten war history, such as the positive contributions of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. South Korea has embraced an interpretation of the Korean War that is hostile to the United States and sympathetic to its North Korean adversaries. This volume not only illuminates regional and global changes in East Asia today, but also underscores the need for rethinking the Cold War language that continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Re-envisioning Asia, Past and Present -- 1 Relocating War Memory at Century’s End: Japan’s Postwar Responsibility and Global Public Culture -- 2 Operations of Memory “Comfort Women” and the World -- 3 Living Soldiers, Re-lived Memories? Japanese Veterans and Postwar Testimony of War Atrocities -- 4 Kamikaze Today The Search for National Heroes in Contemporary Japan -- 5 Lost Men and War Criminals: Public Intellectuals at Yasukuni Shrine -- 6 The Execution of Tosaka Jun and Other Tales: Historical Amnesia, Memory, and the Question of Japan’s “Postwar” -- 7 China’s “Good War” Voices, Locations, and Generations in the Interpretation of the War of Resistance to Japan -- 8 Remembering the Century of Humiliation The Yuanming Gardens and Dagu Forts Museums -- 9 Frontiers of Memory: Conflict, Imperialism, and Official Histories in the Formation of Post–Cold War Taiwan Identity -- 10 The Korean War after the Cold War: Commemorating the Armistice Agreement in South Korea -- 11 The Korean War What Is It that We Are Remembering to Forget? -- 12 Doubly Forgotten: Korea’s Vietnam War and the Revival of Memory -- 13 Revolution, War, and Memory in Contemporary Viet Nam: An Assessment and Agenda -- Epilogue: New Global Conflict? War, Memory, and Post-9/11 Asia -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index

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What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era. All the major East Asian states have undergone a profound reassessment of their experiences from World War II to Vietnam. New and at times aggressive forms of nationalism in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan have affected American security policy in the Pacific and posed a challenge to the post-communist world order. Japan has met fervent opposition to its premiers' visits to the Yasukuni shrine honoring the wartime dead. China has reclaimed a forgotten war history, such as the positive contributions of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. South Korea has embraced an interpretation of the Korean War that is hostile to the United States and sympathetic to its North Korean adversaries. This volume not only illuminates regional and global changes in East Asia today, but also underscores the need for rethinking the Cold War language that continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations.

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