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East Asia Beyond the History Wars : Confronting the Ghosts of Violence.

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 Koreas. Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apol...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Morris-Suzuki, Tessa
Otros Autores: Low, Morris, Petrov, Leonid, Tsu, Timothy Y.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Asia's transformations.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • East Asia Beyond the History Wars Confronting the ghosts of violence; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; Acknowledgements; Introduction: confronting the ghosts of war in East Asia; The statue and its shadow; Reparations, restitution and apology; Rethinking reconciliation; Framing and reframing memory: the textbook wars and beyond; The ghosts of the past; Notes; Part I Reconciliation as method; 1 On the frontiers of history: territory and cross- border dialogue in East Asia; The troubled region; Forms of conflict, processes of reconciliation.
  • Geographies of reconciliation: the China-Russia caseKorean borders as meeting places; Geography and dialogue; Notes; 2 Historiography, media and cross-border dialogue in East Asia: Korea's uncertain path to reconciliation; Introduction; Korea at the centre; Historiographical conflicts; Nationalists and national history in Korea; Resolving history conflicts; Media of reconciliation; Reconciliation through film; Conclusion; Notes; 3 Reconciliation onscreen: the second Sino-Japanese war in Chinese movies; Introduction; Demon; Family; Self and history in crisis; Conclusion; Notes.
  • 4 Letters to the dead: grassroots historical dialogue in East Asia's borderlandsOn Ainu land; A question of violence: forced labour and its legacies; Unearthing the dead of the Uryū Dam; Etching the past in the mind, feeling the present in the body; The return of the dead; Reading the archive, speaking to the dead; Notes; Part II Reframing memories; 5 Gender and representations of the war in Tokyo museums; Introduction; Yasukuni; Shōwakan; Shōkeikan; War and masculinity in Korean monuments; Conclusion; Notes.
  • 6 Remembering the unfinished conflict: museums and the contested memory of the Korean WarForgotten by whom?; The return of the past; The War Memorial of Korea, Seoul; The Victorious Fatherland Liberation War Museum, Pyongyang; The Memorial of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Dandong; The Australian War Memorial, Canberra; Beyond structural absence; Notes; 7 Art, photography and remembering Hiroshima; Introduction; Picturing Hiroshima; Capturing shadows; Painting the sky; Conclusion; Notes.
  • 8 Heroes, collaborators and survivors: Korean kamikaze pilots and the ghosts of war in Japan and KoreaThe unseen memorial; Suicide gods or reluctant recruits?; The martyr as terrorist; The obelisk and the empty grave; In the house of memories; The survivor's story; Two shrines of remembrance; History and the ethics of survival; Notes; Index.