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Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia.

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kwak, Jun-Hyeok
Otros Autores: Nobles, Melissa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
Colección:Political theories in East Asian context.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.
  • 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.