Frontiers of memory in the Asia-Pacific : difficult heritage and the transnational politics of postcolonial nationalism / Pamela Hunt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunt, Pamela, author.

Series:

Hong Kong scholarship online.

Hong Kong scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collective memory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (259 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong, China : Hong Kong University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on 'difficult heritage', this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as 'heritage' in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific: Difficult Heritage and the Transnational Politics of Postcolonial Nationalism

Part I: Memory Politics, Colonialism, and Conflict

1. Lapped by the Tide: Borders of Memory on the Island of Peleliu, Palau

2. Whose Difficult Heritage? Contesting Indigenous Ainu Representations

3. Taipei’s National Martyrs’ Shrine: The Past and Present Lives of a Difficult Monument

Part II: Making Heritage out of Memories of Incarceration

4. Unsettling the Familiar: Hong Kong’s Colonial Policing Heritage

5. Beyond a Racialized Representation of Colonial Quarantine: Recollecting the Many Pasts of St John’s Island, Singapore

6. The Prison Gate as Leftist Heritage? Political Indifference and the Pursuit of ‘Healthy Nationalism’ in Japan

7. Organic Heritage Diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific Region: Reconciliatory Landscapes

Part III: Nationalism, Transnationalism, and Difficult Heritage Making

8. Staking Claims to Difficult Memories: Diplomacy and Jewish Heritage in Shanghai and Beyond

9. From Offshore Heritage to Shared Heritage: Transnational Difficult Heritage Making and the Shanghai Provisional Government of Korea

10. Mapping Kyushu’s War-Related Heritage: Hard and Soft Frontiers of Memory in Japan’s ‘Asian’ Gateway

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 23, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Hunt, Pamela Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific

ISBN:

9789888754939

9888754939

OCLC:

1353100773