Northeast Asias Difficult Past Essays in Collective Memory [Paperback]

The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings.Introduction: Northeast Asia's Memory Problem; B.Schwartz & M.Kim PART?I: JAPAN STUDIES The Yasukuni Conundrum: Japan's Contested Identity and Memory; M.Mochizuki Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Reflexivity; M.Kim Responsibility, Regret, and Nationality in Japanese Memory; K.Fukuoka & B.Schwartz PART II: CHINA STUDIES Political Centers, Progressive Narrative, and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937-1979; X.Xu & L.Spillman Alternative Genres, New Media, and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; G.Yang The Changing Fate of the National Anthem of China; T.Liao, G.Zhang & L.Zhang Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship: The Chinese World War II Victims' Reparations Movement against Japan; B.Xu & G.Fine PART III: KOREA STUDIES Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea; D.Baker The Chos?n Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945-1965; C.Kim Parallax Visions in the Dokdo-Takeshima Disputes; H.Kwon Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia; J.J.Suh Index

'A landmark volume - destined to be a classic in the expanding field of memory studies.'

- James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Director, McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

DON BAKER teaches Korean history and culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada GARY ALAN FINE is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, USA KAZUYA FUKUOKA is Assistant Professor of lÑ