1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia
This handbook explores trauma in East Asia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, assessing how victims, perpetrators and societies have responded to such experiences and to what extent the legacies still resonate today.
Mapping the trauma-scape of East Asia from an interdisciplinary perspective, including anthropologists, historians, film and literary critics, scholars of law, media and education, political scientists and sociologists, this book significantly enhances understandings of the region’s traumatic pasts and how those memories have since been suppressed, exhumed, represented and disputed. In Asia’s contested memory-scape there is much at stake for perpetrators, their victims and heirs to their respective traumas. The scholarly research in this volume examines the silencing and distortion of traumatic pasts and sustained efforts to interrogate denial and impunity in the search for accountability.
Addressing collective traumas from across East Asia (China, Hong Kong, Japan, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam), this book is a valuable resource for students and scholars of Trauma and Memory Studies, Asian Studies and Contemporary Asian History more broadly.
1. Contesting and Commemorating Trauma in East Asia: An Introduction
Tina Burrett
Part 1: Japan
2. Surviving A World Destroyed: Existential Trauma in Hibakusha Experience
M. G Sheftall
3. Japanese Progressives, Asia, and Posttraumatic Growth
Simon Avenell
4. Trauma, Reconciliation, Social Justice and Artistic Commentary: Tomiyama Taeko’s Strategies for Repair Through Her Visual Art
Laura Hein
5. Unwriting the Wrongs: History, Trauma and Memories of Violence in Germany and Japan
Tessa Morris-Suzuki
6. The West and the Dissemination of Japanese Historical Revisionism
Karoline Postel-Vinay
7. Overcoming Trauma at Chidorigafuchi: Japan’s ‘National Cemetery’ and the Legacies of the Asia-Pacific War
Sven Saaler and Collin Rusneac
8. Telling Stories of War Trauma: Japan’s Popular Manga
Akiko Hashimoto
9. Back to the Future: Contested Wartime Trauma in Japanese Popular Culture
David McNeill
10. Shared Complicity in War Crimes in Japanese Detention Camps, 1941-1945
Sandra Wilson
11. Trauma in Japan’s Hope
David Leheny
12. Okinawa: The Trauma of Betrayal
Alexis Dudden and Jeff Kingston
13. Ignoring the History of Foreign Forced Labour at Japan’s ‘Sites of the Meiji Industrial Revolution’
David Palmer
14. Memories and Displays of Japan’s Early Industrialisation through the Production of Silk: Tomioka Silk Mill, Nomugi Pass and WWII Propaganda
Tets Kimura
15. Fukushima’s Traumatic Legacies
Jeff Kingston
Part 2: China/Hong Kong
16. Hong Kong as Pillar of Shame: Trauma Foretold, Suppressed and Compounded
Louisa Lim
17. The Nazi Holocaust in a Chinese Mirror: Shanghai’s Jewish Refugees Museum
Edward Vickers
18. Memory and Mythmaking: World War II in Chinese Cinema
Mike Fu
19. Martyrs, Military Heroes and Massacre Victims: The Complex Memorial Terrain of Lushun, 1894-present
Christian A. Hess
20. Narrating Trauma: Memories of the Atrocities Under the Japanese Occupation of Sanzao Island
Peipei Qiu
21. Trauma, Artificial Intelligence, and Capitalism in Hao Jingfang
Ban Wang
Part 3: Taiwan
22. Contested Memory in Taiwan’s Jing-Mei White Terror Park
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang
23. Transitional Justice in Taiwan: Truth and Reconciliation in a Contested State
Ian Rowen and Jamie Rowen
24. Representing Taiwan’s White Terror in Pop Culture
Brian Hioe
Part 4: South Korea
25. Contesting Trauma in Court: Korean Historical Claims and their Radiating Effects
Celeste L. Arrington
26. Commemorative Witness: ‘Gwangju in 1980’ and Unresolved Transitional Justice in Twenty-First Century South Korea
Nan Kim
27. The Politics of Forgetting: Unmaking Memories and Reacting to Memory-Place-Making
HaeRan Shin and Yerin Jin
28. Cultural Trauma and the Cheju Massacre in Transnational Perspective
Kim Seong Nae
29. Commemorating and Contesting Gender-Based Violence in Korea
Sandra Fahy
Part 5: Wider East Asia
30. Putin, Politics and Propagandising Memories of WWII in Russia’s Far East
Tina Burrett
31. Trauma – Prolonged and Accumulative: The Impact of Singapore Detention without Trial from the 1948 Malayan Emergency
Ariel Yin Yee Yap
32. East Asia’s Vietnam: Trauma Returns and the Sub-Empire of Memory
Long T. Bui
33. Wounds to the Soul: A View from Vietnam
Heonik Kwon
Biography
Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at the Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University, Japan. She is the co-editor of Japan in the Heisei Era 1989–2019 (Routledge, 2022) and Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (Routledge, 2019) and the author of Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia (Routledge, 2011).
Jeff Kingston is Professor of History at Temple University, Japan. He is the author and editor of a dozen books on contemporary Japan and Asia, including Japan’s Quiet Transformation (2004), Contemporary Japan (2011), Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (2014) and Japan in the Heisei Era 1989–2019 (Routledge, 2022).
