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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463153803321

Titolo

East Asia beyond the history wars : confronting the ghosts of violence / / Tessa Morris-Suzuki. [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-203-08453-5

1-283-97310-3

1-136-19227-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Asia's transformations ; ; 40

Altri autori (Persone)

Morris-SuzukiTessa

Disciplina

355.0095

Soggetti

War and society - East Asia

Reconciliation - Social aspects - East Asia

Memorialization - East Asia

Collective memory - East Asia

Electronic books.

East Asia History, Military 20th century

East Asia Foreign relations 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : Confronting the ghosts of war in East Asia / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- On the frontiers of history : territory and cross-border dialogue in East Asia / Leonid Petrov and Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Historiography, media and cross-border diaglogue in Korea : Korea's uncertain path to reconciliation / Leonid Petrov -- Reconciliation onscreen : the Second Sino-Japanese War in Chinese movies / Timothy Y. Tsu -- Letters to the dead : grassroots historical dialogue in East Asia's boarderlands / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Gender and representations of the war in Tokyo Museums / Morris Low -- Remebering the unfinished conflict : Museums and the contested memory of the Korean War / Tessa Morris-Suzuki -- Art, photography and remembering Hiroshima / Morris Low -- Heroes, collaborators and survivors : Korean kamikaze pilots and the ghosts of war in Japan and Korea / Tessa Morris-Suzuki.



Sommario/riassunto

East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreans. Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For over a decade, the region's governments and non-government groups have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing p