This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today.
Mapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the region’s traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asia’s contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this volume examines the silencing and distortion of traumatic pasts and sustained efforts to interrogate denial and impunity in the search for accountability.
Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam), this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Trauma and Memory Studies, Asian Studies and Contemporary Asian History more broadly.
Author(s): Tina Burrett, Jeff Kingston
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 445
City: London
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Table of Contents
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List of Contributors
1 Contesting and Commemorating Trauma in East Asia: An Introduction
Part 1 Japan
2 Surviving a World Destroyed: Existential Trauma in Hibakusha Experience
3 Japanese Progressives, Asia, and Posttraumatic Growth
4 Trauma, Reconciliation, Social Justice and Artistic Commentary: Tomiyama Taeko’s Strategies for Repair through Her Visual Art
5 Unwriting the Wrongs: History, Trauma and Memories of Violence in Germany and Japan
6 The West and the Dissemination of Japanese Historical Revisionism
7 Overcoming Trauma at Chidorigafuchi: Japan’s ‘National Cemetery’ and the Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
8 Telling Stories of War Trauma: Japan’s Popular Manga
9 Back to the Future: Contested Wartime Trauma in Japanese Popular Culture
10 Shared Complicity in War Crimes in Japanese Detention Camps, 1941–1945
11 Trauma in Japan’s Hope
12 Okinawa: The Trauma of Betrayal
13 Ignoring the History of Foreign Forced Labour at Japan’s ‘Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution’
14 Memories and Displays of Japan’s Early Industrialisation through the Production of Silk: Tomioka Silk Mill, Nomugi Pass and WWII Propaganda
15 Fukushima’s Traumatic Legacies
Part 2 China/Hong Kong
16 Hong Kong as Pillar of Shame: Trauma Foretold, Suppressed and Compounded
17 The Nazi Holocaust in a Chinese Mirror: Shanghai’s Jewish Refugees Museum
18 Memory and Mythmaking: World War II in Chinese Cinema
19 Martyrs, Military Heroes and Massacre Victims: The Complex Memorial Terrain of Lushun, 1894–Present
20 Narrating Trauma: Memories of the Atrocities under the Japanese Occupation of Sanzao Island
21 Trauma, Artificial Intelligence, and Capitalism in Hao Jingfang
Part 3 Taiwan
22 Contested Memory in Taiwan’s Jing-Mei White Terror Park
23 Transitional Justice in Taiwan: Truth and Reconciliation in a Contested State
24 Representing Taiwan’s White Terror in Pop Culture
Part 4 South Korea
25 Contesting Trauma in Court: Korean Historical Claims and Their Radiating Eeffcts
26 Commemorative Witness: ‘Gwangju in 1980’ and Unresolved Transitional Justice in Twenty-First Century South Korea
27 The Politics of Forgetting: Unmaking Memories and Reacting to Memory-Place-Making
28 Cultural Trauma and the Cheju Massacre in Transnational Perspective
29 Commemorating and Contesting Gender-Based Violence in Korea
Part 5 Wider East Asia
30 Putin, Politics and Propagandising Memories of WWII in Russia’s Far East
31 Trauma – Prolonged and Accumulative: The Impact of Singapore Detention without Trial from the 1948 Malayan Emergency
32 East Asia’s Vietnam: Trauma Returns and the Sub-Empire of Memory
33 Wounds to the Soul: A View from Vietnam
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