1st Edition

East Asia Beyond the History Wars Confronting the Ghosts of Violence

224 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

224 Pages 17 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Confronting the Ghosts of War in East Asia, Tessa Morris-Suzuki  PART I: Reconciliation as Method 1. On the Frontiers of History: Territory and cross-border dialogue in East Asia, Leonid Petrov and Tessa Morris-Suzuki 2. Historiography, Media and Cross-Border Dialogue in Korea: Korea's uncertain path to reconciliation, Leonid Petrov 3.Reconciliation Onscreen: The Second Sino-Japanese War in Chinese War Movies, Timothy Tsu 4. Letters to the Dead: Grassroots historical dialogue in East Asia's borderlands, Tessa Morris-Suzuki PART II: Re-Framing Memories 5. Gender and Representations of the War in Tokyo Museums, Morris Low 6. Remembering the Unfinished Conflict: Museums and the Contested Memory of the Korean War, Tessa Morris-Suzuki 7. Art, Photography and Remembering Hiroshima, Morris Low 8. Heroes, Collaborators and Survivors: Korean kamikaze pilots and the ghosts of war in Japan and Korea, Tessa Morris-Suzuki

Biography

Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Professor of Japanese History at the Australian National University.

Morris Low is Associate Professor of Japanese History at the University of Queensland, Australia.

Leonid Petrov is a former Chair of Korean Studies at Sciences Po (Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris) and teaches Korean History and Language at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Timothy Y. Tsu is Professor in the School of International Studies, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan.