Overcoming empire in post-Imperial East Asia : repatriation, redress and rebuilding
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Overcoming empire in post-Imperial East Asia : repatriation, redress and rebuilding
(SOAS studies in modern and contemporary Japan)
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020
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  Gunma
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  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-238) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
When Emperor Hirohito announced defeat in a radio broadcast on 15th August 1945, Japan was not merely a nation; it was a colossal empire stretching from the tip of Alaska to the fringes of Australia grown out of a colonial ideology that continued to pervade East Asian society for years after the end of the Second World War. In Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding, Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov bring together an international team of leading scholars to explore the post-imperial history of the region.
From international aid to postwar cinema to chemical warfare, these essays all focus on the aftermath of Japan's aggressive warfare and the new international strategies which Japan, China, Taiwan, North and South Korea utilised following the end of the war and the collapse of Japan's empire. The result is a nuanced analysis of the transformation of postwar national identities, colonial politics, and the reordering of society in East Asia. With its innovative comparative and transnational perspective, this book is essential reading for scholars of modern East Asian history, the cold war, and the history of decolonisation.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Overcoming Empire, Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia, UK)
1. Trapped between Imperial Ruins: Internment and Repatriation of the Taiwanese in Postwar Asia-Pacific, Shi-chi Mike Lan (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
2. China's Refugees: Postwar 'Foreigners' and the Attempt at International Aid, 1945-1956, Meredith Oyen (University of Maryland, USA)
3. Early Narratives of Japan's Korean War, Samuel Perry (Brown University, USA)
4. Reconstructing Architectural Memories of the Japanese Empire in South Korea, Hyun Kyung Lee (Seoul National University, South Korea)
5. The Cinematic Reconstruction of East Asia in Postwar Japanese War Films, Dick Stegewerns (University of Oslo, Norway)
6. Anti-Imperialism as Strategy: Masking the Edges of Foreign Entanglements in Civil War-Era China, 1945-1948, Matthew D. Johnson (Taylor's University, Malaysia)
7. From the Ashes of Empire: The Reconstruction of Manchukuo's Enterprises and the Making of China's Northeastern Industrial Base, 1948-1952, Hirata Koji (University of Cambridge, UK)
8. Empires and Continuity: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service in East Asia, 1950-1955, Chihyun Chang (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China)
9. Inverted Compensation: Wartime Forced Labor and Post-Imperial Reckoning, Yukiko Koga (Hunter College, USA)
10. Japan, Chemical Warfare and Okunoshima: A Postwar Overview, Arnaud Doglia (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
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