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RUPTURED HISTORIES
WAR, MEMORY AND THE POST-COLD WAR IN ASIA |
| By: |
Sheila Miyoshi Jager (Editor), Rana Mitter (Editor) |
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Paperback |
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£28.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674024710 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674024717 |
| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 April, 2007 |
| Pages: |
400 |
| Description: |
What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their history? This title contains essays that explore the wars of the modern era. It illuminates regional and global changes in East Asia, and also underscores the need for rethinking the Cold War language that informs US-East Asian relations. |
| Synopsis: |
What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era. All the major East Asian states have undergone a profound reassessment of their experiences from World War II to Vietnam. New and at times aggressive forms of nationalism in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam and Taiwan have affected American security policy in the Pacific and posed a challenge to the post-communist world order. Japan has met fervent opposition to its premiers' visits to the Yasukuni shrine honouring the wartime dead. China has reclaimed a forgotten war history, such as the positive contributions of Chiang Kaishek's Nationalists. South Korea has embraced an interpretation of the Korean War that is hostile to the United States and sympathetic to its North Korean adversaries. This volume not only illuminates regional and global changes in East Asia today, but also underscores the need for rethinking the Cold War language that continues to inform U.S. - East Asian relations. |
| Illustrations: |
22 halftones, 2 tables |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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