Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem....Pages 1-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan’s Contested Identity and Memory....Pages 31-52
Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory....Pages 53-70
Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory....Pages 71-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979....Pages 101-128
Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution....Pages 129-146
The Changing Fate of the Chinese National Anthem....Pages 147-165
Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement Against Japan....Pages 166-189
Front Matter....Pages 191-191
Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea....Pages 193-212
The Chosŏn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945–1965....Pages 213-228
Parallax Visions in the Dokdo/Takeshima Disputes....Pages 229-242
Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia....Pages 243-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-276