Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia : identity politics, schooling and popular culture
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Imagining Japan in post-war East Asia : identity politics, schooling and popular culture
(Routledge studies in education and society in Asia, 4)
Routledge, 2015
- : pbk
Available at 6 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
First pulished (hardback) : 2013
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In the decades since her defeat in the Second World War, Japan has continued to loom large in the national imagination of many of her East Asian neighbours. While for many, Japan still conjures up images of rampant military brutality, at different times and in different communities, alternative images of the Japanese 'Other' have vied for predominance - in ways that remain poorly understood, not least within Japan itself.
Imagining Japan in Postwar East Asia analyses the portrayal of Japan in the societies of East and Southeast Asia, and asks how and why this has changed in recent decades, and what these changing images of Japan reveal about the ways in which these societies construct their own identities. It examines the role played by an imagined 'Japan' in the construction of national selves across the East Asian region, as mediated through a broad range of media ranging from school curricula and textbooks to film, television, literature and comics. Commencing with an extensive thematic and comparative overview chapter, the volume also includes contributions focusing specifically on Chinese societies (the mainland PRC, Hong Kong and Taiwan), Korea, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. These studies show how changes in the representation of Japan have been related to political, social and cultural shifts within the societies of East Asia - and in particular to the ways in which these societies have imagined or constructed their own identities.
Bringing together contributors working in the fields of education, anthropology, history, sociology, political science and media studies, this interdisciplinary volume will be of interest to all students and scholars concerned with issues of identity, politics and culture in the societies of East Asia, and to those seeking a deeper understanding of Japan's fraught relations with its regional neighbours.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: 'Japan' in Popular Culture and Public Propaganda 1. Beyond Mimesis: Japan and the Uses of Political Ideology in Singapore 2. Impressions of 'Japan' in Taiwan After 1990 3. Meanings of the Imagined Friends: Good Japanese in Chinese war films 4. Friend or Foe: Representations of Japan in the Print Media in the Philippines, 1940s to the Present 5. Japan in the Public Culture of South Korea: Conflicting Images Attached to Colonial Sites, Part II: 'Japan' in Official Discourse 6. Changing Views of the Anti-Japanese War in Chinese High School History Textbooks 7 Reconstructing the Nation: The Role of Sino-Japanese History in Hong Kong's Schools 8. Japan's Place in Taiwan's Textbooks 9. Japanese Occupation in the Malaysian History Textbooks 10. The Portrayal of the Japanese as an 'Other' in Singapore's School Textbook Narrative of the Japanese Occupation 11. Portrayal of Japanese Occupation in Philippine Textbooks and Filipino National Identity Formation 12. The Annual Seminar of the History Teachers from China, Japan and South Korea: Achievements and Problems
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