Northeast Asia’s Difficult Past

1. Introduction: Northeast Asia’s Memory Problem
Barry Schwartz, Mikyoung Kim

Section I. Japan Studies

2. The Yasukuni Shrine Conundrum: Japan’s Contested Identity and Memory
Mike M. Mochizuki

3. Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Memory
Mikyoung Kim

4. Responsibility, Regret and Nationalism in Japanese Memory
Kazuya Fukuoka, Barry Schwartz

Section II. China Studies

5. Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979
Xiaohong Xu, Lyn Spillman

6. Alternative Genres, New Media and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution
Guobin Yang

7. The Changing Fate of the Chinese National Anthem
Tim F. Liao, Gehui Zhang, Libin Zhang

8. Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship in Chinese World War II Victims’ Reparations Movement Against Japan
Bin Xu, Gary Alan Fine

Section III. Korea Studies

9. Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea
Don Baker

10. The Chosŏn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945–1965
Christine Kim

11. Parallax Visions in the Dokdo/Takeshima Disputes
Heonik Kwon

12. Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia
Jae-Jung Suh

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Regional and Cultural Studies, Cultural Studies, Asian History, Political Science, Ethnicity Studies, Modern History