Ruptured histories: war, memory, and the post-Cold War in Asia/ War, memory, and the post-Cold War in Asia edited by Sheila Miyoshi Jager, Rana Mitter. - xii, 384 pages: illustrations; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-369) and index.

Re-envisioning Asia, past and present / Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter --
Relocating war memory at century's end: Japan's postwar responsibility and global public culture / Franziska Seraphim --
Operations of memory: "comfort women" and the world / Carol Gluck --
Living soldiers, re-lived memories? Japanese veterans and postwar testimony of war atrocities / Daqing Yang --
Kamikaze today: the search for National heroes in contemporary Japan / Yoshikuni Igarashi --
Lost men and war criminals: public intellectuals at Yasukuni Shrine / Ann Sherif --
The execution of Tosaka Jun and other tales: historical amnesia, memory, and the question of Japan's "postwar" / Harry D. Harootunian --
China's "Good War": voices, locations, and generations in the interpretation of the war of resistance to Japan / Rana Mitter --
Remembering the century of humiliation: the Yuanming Gardens and Dagu Forts Museums / James L. Hevia --
Frontiers of memory: conflict, imperialism, and official histories in the formation of post-Cold War Taiwan identity / Edward Vickers --
The Korean War after the Cold War: commemorating the Armistice agreement in South Korea / Sheila Miyoshi Jager and Jiyual Kim --
The Korean War: what is it that we are remembering to forget? / Bruce Cumings --
Dt Doubly forgotten: Korea's Vietnam War and the revival of memory / Charles K. Armstrong --
Revolution, war, and memory in contemporary Viet Nam: an assessment and agenda / Christoph Giebel --
New global conflict? War, memory, and post-9/11 Asia / Shelia Miyoshi Jager and Rana Mitter.

0674024702 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780674024700

2006049772

GBA716300 bnb

013683459 Uk


East Asia--History--1945-

DS518.1 / .R87 2007

950.42