Inherited responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asia / / edited by Jun-Hyeok Kwak and Melissa Nobles

• Pubblicazione: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (189 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.6/9095
• Soggetto topico: Reconciliation - Political aspects - East Asia; Reconciliation - Social aspects - East Asia; Collective memory - Political asepcts - East Asia; Collective memory - Social aspects - East Asia
• Soggetto geografico: East Asia History 20th century
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KwakChun-hyok NoblesMelissa
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Inherited responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asian context / Jun-Hyeok Kwak -- Owning the misdeeds of Japan's wartime regime / Farid Abdel-Nour -- Historic injustice and the inheritance of rights and duties in East Asia / Daniel Butt -- Inherited responsibility and the challenge of political reconciliation / Ernesto Verdeja -- Historical reconciliation in Southeast Asia : notes from Singapore / Tze M. Loo -- Remembering and forgetting the war : elite mythmaking, mass reaction, and Sino-Japanese Relations / Yinan He -- Appropriating defeat : Japan, America, and Eto Jun's historical reconciliations / Naoyuki Umemori -- Comfort women and Japan's national responsibility : a case study in reconciling feminism and nationalism / Ranjoo Herr -- Captives of the past : the questions of responsibility and reconciliation in North Korea's narratives of the Korean War / Balazs Szalontai.
• Sommario/riassunto: Contemporary East Asian societies are still struggling with complex legacies of colonialism, war and domination. Years of Japanese imperial occupation followed by the Cold War have entrenched competing historical understandings of responsibility for past crimes in Korea, China, Japan and elsewhere in the region. In this context, even the impressive economic and cultural networks that have developed over the past sixty years have failed to secure peaceful coexistence and overcome lingering attitudes of distrust and misunderstanding in the region. This book examines the challeng
• Titolo autorizzato: Inherited responsibility and historical reconciliation in East Asia
• ISBN: 0-203-59775-3; 1-299-27983-X; 1-135-07306-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910465420703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Political Theories in East Asian Context