East Asia beyond the history wars : confronting the ghosts of violence / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morris-Suzuki, Tessa.

Series:

Asia's Transformations

Asia's transformations ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society--East Asia.

War and society.

Reconciliation--Social aspects--East Asia.

Reconciliation.

Memorialization--East Asia.

Memorialization.

Collective memory--East Asia.

Collective memory.

East Asia--History, Military--20th century.

East Asia.

East Asia--Foreign relations--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreans. Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region's governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing p

Contents:

Introduction : Confronting the ghosts of war in East Asia / Tessa Morris-Suzuki

On the frontiers of history : territory and cross-border dialogue in East Asia / Leonid Petrov and Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Historiography, media and cross-border diaglogue in Korea : Korea's uncertain path to reconciliation / Leonid Petrov

Reconciliation onscreen : the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chinese movies / Timothy Y. Tsu

Letters to the dead : grassroots historical dialogue in East Asia's boarderlands / Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Gender and representations of the war in Tokyo Museums / Morris Low

Remebering the unfinished conflict : Museums and the contested memory of the Korean War / Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Art, photography and remembering Hiroshima / Morris Low

Heroes, collaborators and survivors : Korean kamikaze pilots and the ghosts of war in Japan and Korea / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-19226-3

0-203-08453-5

1-283-97310-3

1-136-19227-1

9780203084533

OCLC:

827208899