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Title Northeast Asia's difficult past : essays in collective memory / edited by Mikyoung Kim and Barry Schwartz
Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages)
Series Palgrave Macmillan memory studies
Palgrave Macmillan memory studies.
Contents Introduction: Northeast Asia's memory problem / Barry Schwartz and Mikyoung Kim -- Japan studies. The Yasukuni conundrum : Japan's contested identity and memory / Mike M. Mochizuki -- Japanese pacifism : problematic reflexivity / Mikyoung Kim -- Responsibility, regret, and nationalism in Japanese memory / Kazuya Fukuoka and Barry Schwartz -- China studies. Political centers, progressive narrative, and cultural trauma : coming to terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937-1979 / Xiaohong Xu and Lynn Spillman -- Alternative genres, new media, and counter memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution / Guobin Yang -- The changing fate of the national anthem of China / Tim F. Liao, Gehui Zhang, and Libin Zhang -- Memory movement and state-society relationship in Chinese WWII's reparations movement against Japan / Bin Xu and Gary Fine -- Korea studies. Exacerbated politics : the legacy of political trauma in South Korea / Don Baker -- The Chosôn monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945-1965 / Christine Kim -- Parallax visions in the Dokdo-Takeshima disputes / Heonik Kwon -- Epilogue: Caught between contentions and dialogues : historical memories in Northeast Asia / J.J. Suh
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Collective memory -- Japan
Nationalism and collective memory -- Japan
Collective memory -- China
Nationalism and collective memory -- China
Collective memory -- Korea
Nationalism and collective memory -- Korea
Cultural studies -- Asia.
Ethnic studies -- Asia.
Asian history -- Asia.
Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 -- Asia.
Political control & freedoms -- Asia.
HISTORY.
Society.
Collective memory
International relations
Nationalism and collective memory
SUBJECT Japan -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85069498
China -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024101
Korea -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073037
Asia -- Relations -- Case studies
Subject Asia
China
Japan
Korea
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
Author Kim, Mikyoung, 1963-
Schwartz, Barry, 1938-
ISBN 9780230277427
023027742X
9781349314850
1349314854