Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory (Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies)

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 11
Acknowledgement......Page 12
Notes on Contributors......Page 13
Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem......Page 16
Section I: Japan Studies......Page 44
1 The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan’s Contested Identity and Memory......Page 46
2 Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory......Page 68
3 Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory......Page 86
Section II: China Studies......Page 114
4 Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979......Page 116
5 Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution......Page 144
6 The Changing Fate of the Chinese National Anthem......Page 162
7 Memory Movement and State–Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement Against Japan......Page 181
Section III: Korea Studies......Page 206
8 Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea......Page 208
9 The Chosŏn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945–1965......Page 228
10 Parallax Visions in the Dokdo/Takeshima Disputes......Page 244
Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia......Page 258
Index......Page 272