Remembering Asia's World War Two (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Frost, Mark R.; Vickers, Edward; Schumacher, Daniel

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Over the past four decades, East and Southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the region's bloody conflicts of the period 1931-45. This book examines the origins, dynamics and repercussions of this regional war 'memory boom'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. März 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429632563
• Artikelnr.: 56139815

Autorenporträt

Mark R. Frost is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of History, University of Essex, UK. He is a historian of the colonial encounter in the Indian Ocean world, a documentary filmmaker and exhibition designer, and the author of Singapore: A Biography (2009, 2013). Daniel Schumacher is Associate Fellow at the Centre for Public History, University of Essex, UK. His research interests include East/Southeast Asian memory politics and transcultural education. He is the co-editor (with Stephanie Yeo) of Exhibiting the Fall of Singapore: Close Readings of a Global Event (2018). Edward Vickers is Professor of Comparative Education and Director of the Taiwan Studies Program at Kyushu University, Japan. A former schoolteacher and textbook author (in Hong Kong and Beijing), he has published widely on the politics of memory, identity, and education in East Asian societies. He is co-author (with Zeng Xiaodong) of Education and Society in post-Mao China (2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: locating Asia's war memory boom: a new temporal and
geopolitical perspective
Part I States and citizens
1 Angry states: Chinese views of Japan as seen through the Unit 731 War
Museum since 1949
2 Memory times, memory places: public and private commemoration of war in
China
3 The Jianchuan museum: the politics of war memory in a private Chinese
museum
4 The state of Malaysian war memory: "postcolonizing" moments in Perak
Part II Transnational dynamics
5 Capitalists can do no wrong: selective memories of war and occupation in
Hong Kong
6 Transition and transnational loyalties: World War Two remembrance and the
overseas Chinese in Singapore
7 Commemorating "comfort women" beyond Korea: the Chinese case
Part III Transnational reconciliation
8 In search of fathers: the pilgrimages to Asia of the children of Far East
prisoners of war
9 "Affect" and dislocation: exhibiting the kamikaze in Japan and Pearl
Harbor
10 Methods of reconciliation: the "rich tradition" of Japanese war memory
activism in post-war Southeast Asia