Inherited Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asia

ISBN-13: 9780415535694 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 200 str.

Jun-Hyeok Kwak; Melissa Nobles

Opis

This book examines the challenges of historical reconciliation in East Asia, and calls for reimagining our understandings of historical identity and responsibility by adopting a 'forward-looking' approach that eschews obsession with the past in favour of grounding the possibility of mutual trust in a reflective and deliberative engagement with history.

Spis treści

Part I: Introduction  1. ‘Inherited’ Responsibility and Historical Reconciliation in East Asian Context  Part II: Theoretical Overview  2. Owning the Misdeeds of Japan’s Wartime Regime 3. Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia 4. Inherited Responsibility and the Challenge of Political Reconciliation  Part III: Historical Reconciliation in East Asia 5. Historical Reconciliation in Southeast Asia: Notes from Singapore 6. Remembering and Forgetting the War: Elite Mythmaking, Mass Reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations 7. Appropriating Defeat: Japan, America, and Eto Jun’s Historical Reconciliations 8. "Comfort Women" and Japan’s National Responsibility: A Case Study in Reconciling Feminism and Nationalism Historical Reconciliation in China 9. Captives of the Past: The Questions of Responsibility and Reconciliation in North Korea’s Narratives of the Korean War