Remembering Asia's World War Two
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Remembering Asia's World War Two
（Remembering the modern world）
Routledge, 2020, c2019
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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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. Remembering Asia's World War Two examines the origins, dynamics, and repercussions of this regional war "memory boom".
The book analyzes the politics of war commemoration in contemporary East and Southeast Asia. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars, the chapters span China, Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Singapore, covering topics such as the commemoration of the Japanese military's "comfort women" system, forms of "dark tourism" or commemorative pilgrimages (e.g. veterans' tours to wartime battlefields), and the establishment and evolution of various war-related heritage sites and museums. Case studies reveal the distinctive trajectories of new and newly discovered forms of remembrance within and across national boundaries. They highlight the growing influence of non-state actors over representations of conflict and occupation, as well as the increasingly interconnected and transnational character of memory-making. Taken together, the studies collected here demonstrate that across much of Asia the public commemoration of the wars of 1931-45 has begun to shift from portraying them as a series of national conflicts with distinctive local meanings to commemorating the conflict as a common pan-Asian, or even global, experience.
Focusing on non-textual vehicles for public commemoration and considering both the local and international dimensions of war commemoration within, Remembering Asia's World War Two will be a crucial reference for students and scholars of History, Memory Studies, and Heritage Studies, as well as all those interested in the history, politics, and culture of contemporary Asia.
Table of Contents
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
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