The Sino-Japanese War (1937 - 1945) was fought in the Asia-Pacific
theatre between Imperial Japan and China, with the United States as
the latter's major military ally. An important line of
investigation remains, questioning how the history of this war has
been passed on to post-war generations' consciousness, and how
information sources, particularly those exposed to young people in
their formative years, shape their knowledge and bias of the
conflict as well as World War II more generally. This book is the
first to focus on how the Sino-Japanese War has been represented in
non-English and English sources for children and young adults. As a
cross-cultural study and an interdisciplinary endeavour, it not
only examines youth-orientated publications in China and the United
States, but also draws upon popular culture, novelists' memoirs,
and family oral narratives to make comparisons between fiction and
history, Chinese and American sources, and published materials and
private memories of the war. Through quantitative narrative
analysis, literary and visual analysis, and socio-political
critique, it shows the dominant pattern of war stories, traces
chronological changes over the seven decades from 1937 to 2007, and
teases out the ways in which the history of the Sino-Japanese War
has been constructed, censored, and utilized to serve shifting
agendas. Providing a much needed examination of public memory,
literary representation, and popular imagination of the
Sino-Japanese War, this book will have huge interdisciplinary
appeal, particularly for students and scholars of Asian history,
literature, society and education.
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