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

East Asia Beyond the History Wars Confronting the ghosts of violence
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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 case
		Korean 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 borderlands
		On 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 War
		Forgotten 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 Korea
		The 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