Ruptured Histories

War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-674-02471-7
Verlag: Harvard University Press

Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 232 mm x 152 mm, Gewicht: 548 g

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 honoring the wartime dead. China has reclaimed a forgotten war history, such as the positive contributions of Chiang Kai-shek’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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jager, Sheila Miyoshi

Mitter, Rana

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Jager, Sheila Miyoshi
Sheila Miyoshi Jager is the author of <i>Brothers at War: The Unending Conflict in Korea</i> and <i>Narratives of Nation-Building in Korea: The Genealogy of Patriotism</i>. A specialist on modern East Asian and Korean history and politics, she has written for the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Politico</i>, and the <i>Boston Globe</i>. She is Professor of East Asian Studies at Oberlin College.

Mitter, Rana
Rana Mitter is the author of several books, including <i>A Bitter Revolution: China’s Struggle with the Modern World</i> and <i>Forgotten Ally: China’s World War II, 1937–1945</i>, named a Book of the Year in <i>The Economist</i> and <i>Financial Times</i>. He has commented on Asia for the BBC, NPR, CNN, the <i>New York Times</i>, the History Channel, and the World Economic Forum at Davos. Professor of the History and Politics of Modern China at the University of Oxford, he is also a Fellow of the British Academy and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.