ISBN:
9780415535694
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (189 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Political Theories in East Asian Context
Series Statement:
Political Theories in East Asian Context Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia
DDC:
303.6/9095
Keywords:
Collective memory - Social aspects - East Asia
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere in the region. In this context, even the impressive economic and cultural networks that have developed over the past sixty years have failed to secure peaceful coexistence and overcome lingering attitudes of distrust and misunderstanding in the region. This book examines the challeng
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; PART I Introduction; 1 "Inherited" responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asian context; PART II Theoretical overview; 2 Owning the misdeeds of Japan's wartime regime; 3 Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia; 4 Inherited responsibility and the challenge of political reconciliation; PART III Historical reconciliation in East Asia; 5 Historical reconciliation in Southeast Asia: notes from Singapore
Description / Table of Contents:
6 Remembering and forgetting the war: elite mythmaking, mass reaction, and Sino-Japanese relations7 Appropriating defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun's historical reconciliations; 8 "Comfort women" and Japan's national responsibility: a case study in reconciling feminism and nationalism; 9 Captives of the past: the questions of responsibility and reconciliation in North Korea's narratives of the Korean War; Index
Description / Table of Contents:
Inherited responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asian context / Jun-Hyeok Kwak -- Owning the misdeeds of Japan's wartime regime / Farid Abdel-Nour -- Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia / Daniel Butt -- Inherited responsibility and the challenge of political reconciliation / Ernesto Verdeja -- Historical reconciliation in Southeast Asia : notes from Singapore / Tze M. Loo -- Remembering and forgetting the war : elite mythmaking, mass reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations / Yinan He -- Appropriating defeat : Japan, America, and Eto Jun's historical reconciliations / Naoyuki Umemori -- Comfort women and Japan's national responsibility : a case study in reconciling feminism and nationalism / Ranjoo Herr -- Captives of the past : the questions of responsibility and reconciliation in North Korea's narratives of the Korean War / Balazs Szalontai.
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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