Ruptured Histories : : War, Memory, and the Post–Cold War in Asia /

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

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 th...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Armstrong, Charles K.,
Cumings, Bruce,
Giebel, Christoph,
Gluck, Carol,
Harootunian, Harry D.,
Hevia, James L.,
Igarashi, Yoshikuni,
Mitter, Rana,
Miyoshi Jager, Sheila,
Seraphim, Franziska,
Sherif, Ann,
Yang, Daqing,
HerausgeberIn:
Jager, Sheila Miyoshi,
Mitter, Rana,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2007]
©2007
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (400 p.)
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Table of 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

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