East Asia is now the world's economic powerhouse, but ghosts of
history continue to trouble relations between the key countries of
the region, particularly between Japan, China and the two Koreas.
Unhappy legacies of Japan's military expansion in pre-war Asia
prompt on-going calls for apologies, while conflicts over ownership
of cultural heritage cause friction between China and Korea, and no
peace treaty has ever been signed to conclude the Korean War. For
over a decade, the region's governments and non-government groups
have sought to confront the ghosts of the past by developing paths
to reconciliation. Focusing particularly on popular culture and
grassroots action, East Asia beyond the History Wars explores these
East Asian approaches to historical reconciliation. This book
examines how Korean historians from North and South exchange ideas
about national history, how Chinese film-makers reframe their views
of the war with Japan, and how Japanese social activists develop
grassroots reconciliation projects with counterparts from Korea and
elsewhere. As the volume's studies of museums, monuments and
memorials show, East Asian public images of modern history are
changing, but change is fragile and uncertain. This unfinished
story of East Asia's search for historical reconciliation has
important implications for the study of popular memory worldwide.
Presenting a fresh perspective on reconciliation which draws on
both history and cultural studies, this book will be welcomed by
students and scholars working in the fields of Asian history, Asian
culture and society as well as those interested in war and memory
studies more generally.
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