1st Edition

World War Two Legacies in East Asia China Remembers the War

By Chan Yang Copyright 2018
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages
by Routledge

How to remember World War Two in East Asia is a huge source of friction between China and Japan, causing major diplomatic and political difficulties right up to the present. As this book shows, however, there is also disagreement within these countries as to how to remember the war, which in the case of China began immediately after the war and lasted with varying degrees of intensity until the... Read more

1. Introduction



2. Remembrance of the War and Sino–Japanese Relations



3. The Necessity of Commemorating the War: Honouring the Martyrs



4. Remembrance of the War: Using the Past to Serve the Present



5. Beyond the State: Non-Official Agents of the Fifteen-Year War Memory



6. Conclusion

Biography

Chan Yang is a Lecturer in the Institute for International Studies at Wuhan University, China.