Remembering Asia's World War Two /

Over the past four decades, east and southeast Asia have seen a proliferation of heritage sites and remembrance practices which commemorate the region's bloody conflicts of the period 1931-45. Remembering Asia's World War Two examines the origins, dynamics and repercussions of this regiona...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Frost, Mark Ravinder (Editor), Schumacher, Daniel (Editor), Vickers, Edward, 1971- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
Series:	Remembering the modern world.
Subjects:	World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > East Asia. World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > Southeast Asia. Collective memory > Asia. War memorials > Asia. Historic sites > Asia. Military museums > Asia.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : Locating Asia's war memory boom : a new temporal and geopolitical perspective / Mark R. Frost, Edward Vickers and Daniel Schumacher
Angry states : Chinese views of Japan as seen through the Unit 731 War Museum since 1949 / Tony Brooks
Memory times, memory places : public and private commemoration of war in China / Diana Lary
The Jianchuan Museum and memory of the war of resistance against Japan / Kirk A. Denton
The state of Malaysian war memory : "postcolonizing" moments in Perak / Hamzah Muzaini
Capitalists can do no wrong : selective memories of war and occupation in Hong Kong / Edward Vickers
Transition and transnational loyalties : World War II remembrance and the overseas Chinese in Singapore / Daniel Schumacher
Commemorating "comfort women" beyond Korea : the Chinese case / Edward Vickers
In search of fathers : the pilgrimages to Asia of the children of Far East prisoners of war / Terry Smyth
"Affect" and dislocation : exhibiting the kamikaze in Japan and Pearl Harbor / Matthew Allen
Methods of reconciliation : the "rich tradition" of Japanese war memory activism in post-war Southeast Asia / Mark R. Frost and Yosuke Watanabe.