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Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past

Essays in Collective Memory

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Mikyoung Kim

    1. Hiroshima City University—Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan

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  2. Barry Schwartz

    1. University of Georgia, USA

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Part of the book series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies (PMMS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem

    1. Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem

      • Barry Schwartz, Mikyoung Kim
      Pages 1-27

  3. Japan Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan’s Contested Identity and Memory

      • Mike M. Mochizuki
      Pages 31-52

    3. Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory

      • Mikyoung Kim
      Pages 53-70

    4. Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory

      • Kazuya Fukuoka, Barry Schwartz
      Pages 71-97

  6. Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia

    1. Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia

      • Jae-Jung Suh
      Pages 243-256

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 257-276
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About this book

The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings.

Reviews

'A landmark volume - destined to be a classic in the expanding field of memory studies.'

- James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Director, McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

Editors and Affiliations

  • Hiroshima City University—Hiroshima Peace Institute, Japan

    Mikyoung Kim

  • University of Georgia, USA

    Barry Schwartz

About the editors

DON BAKER teaches Korean history and culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Canada GARY ALAN FINE is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, USA KAZUYA FUKUOKA is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Saint Joseph's University, USA CHRISTINE KIM is Assistant Professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Department of History at Georgetown University, USA HEONIK KWON is Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics, UK TIM FUTING LIAO is Professor of Sociology and Head of Department, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA MIKE M. MOCHIZUKI holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs in George Washington University, USA LYN SPILLMAN teaches at the University of Notre Dame, U.S.A J.J. SUH is Associate Professor and Director of the Korea Studies Program at The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies(SAIS), Johns Hopkins University, USA GUOBIN YANG is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures in Barnard College, Columbia University, USA BIN XU is a Ph.D. student in Sociology at Northwestern University, USA XIAOHONG XU is a Ph.D student in Sociology at Yale University, USA GEHUI ZHANG is a Ph.D student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA LIBIN ZHANG is a Ph.D student in Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA.

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