Northeast Asia's Difficult Past Essays in Collective Memory

by Schwartz, Barry; Kim, Mikyoung

• ISBN13: 9780230237476
• ISBN10: 0230237479
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings.

Author Biography

MIKYOUNG KIM is Assistant Professor of International Security at the Hiroshima Peace Institute-Hiroshima City University, Japan. She is the author of North Korean Human Rights Debates in East Asia, and has also published several journal articles on memory, North Korean human rights, and gender.

BARRY SCHWARTZ is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. He is the author of numerous articles, and his most recent book is Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in the Late Twentieth Century. He has addressed collective memory issues through a wide range of topics, including comparative studies involving the United States, Germany, Japan, Korea, China, and ancient and modern Israel.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
Acknowledgement	p. xi
Notes on Contributors	p. xii
Introduction: Northeast Asia's Memory Problem	p. 1
Japan Studies
The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan's Contested Identity and Memory	p. 31
Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory	p. 53
Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory	p. 71
China Studies
Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937-1979	p. 101
Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution	p. 129
The Changing Fate of the Chinese National Anthem	p. 147
Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims' Reparations Movement Against Japan	p. 166
Korea Studies
Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea	p. 193
The Choscn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945-1965	p. 213
Parallax Visions in the Dokdo/Takeshima Disputes	p. 229
Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia	p. 243
Index	p. 257
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