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Northeast Asia's Difficult Past - Essays in Collective Memory (Hardcover)
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Northeast Asia's Difficult Past - Essays in Collective Memory (Hardcover)
Series: Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies
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Asia's 'Memory Problem' is unique. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans
assign great significance to their national pasts; disagreements
about one another's history and commemorative practices are heated
and affect diplomatic and economic relationships. Honour and shame
societies teach their members to think about the past differently
than do societies of dignity and guilt. In Northeast Asia, the
events judged most negative reveal weakness or incompetence, and
they induce shame. For this reason, the Western 'politics of
regret', which include practices based on violations of dignity and
a sense of collective guilt, cannot be directly generalized to
Northeast Asian cultures. These cultures are, thus, privileged
sites for the study of memory. In no other regional setting is the
interdependence of history, commemoration and belief so significant
and problematic. In no other setting is the Memory Problem so
acute.
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