Remembering Asia's World War Two

ISBN-13: 9780367731366 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 288 str.

Mark R. Frost; Daniel Schumacher; Edward Vickers

Opis

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’.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).