Remembering Asia's World War Two (Hardcover)

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Series editor forward

Introduction: Locating Asia’s War Memory Boom: a new temporal and geopolitical perspective

PART 1

States and Citizens

1 Angry States: Chinese views of Japan as seen through the Unit 731 War Museum since 1949

2 Memory Times, Memory Places: public and private commemoration of war in China

3 The Jianchuan Museum and Memory of the War of Resistance Against Japan

4 The State of Malaysian War Memory: ‘postcolonizing’ moments in Perak

PART 2

Transnational Dynamics

5 Capitalists Can Do No Wrong: selective memories of war and occupation in Hong Kong

6 Transition and Transnational Loyalties: World War II remembrance and the overseas Chinese in Singapore

7 Commemorating ‘Comfort Women’ Beyond Korea: the Chinese Case

PART 3

Transnational Reconciliation

8 In Search of Fathers: the pilgrimages to Asia of the children of Far East prisoners of war

9 ‘Affect’ and Dislocation: exhibiting the kamikaze in Japan and Pearl Harbor

10 Methods of Reconciliation: the ‘rich tradition’ of Japanese war memory activism in post-war Southeast Asia