Cultures of memory in Asia : dynamics and forms of memorialization /

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Imprint:	Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2023. ©2023
Description:	xvii, 204 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
Subject:	Memorialization -- East Asia. Memorialization -- Southeast Asia. Collective memory -- East Asia. Collective memory -- Southeast Asia. Collective memory. Historiography. Memorialization. East Asia -- Historiography. Southeast Asia -- Historiography. East Asia. Southeast Asia.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12786224

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Other authors / contributors:	Wu, Chieh-Hsiang, editor.
ISBN:	9781032150406 1032150408 9781032150444 1032150440 9781032150444 9781000599213 9781000599190 9781003242253
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"A collection of works by Asian scholars looking at different ways in which relatively recent traumas have been memorialized in their various countries, often while the traumas themselves are ongoing, or the memories of them contested. Memory studies typically focuses on the study of memorialization after traumatic incidents are overcome, in Asia, however, the past and the present remain closely intertwined. Between the legacies of the Japanese Empire, the respective suppressions by the Kuomintang and the People's Republic of China, and the ongoing protests in much of Southeast Asia against oppressive governments and laws, memorialization is occurring while the histories are still being contested. The contributors to this book are Asian scholars examining the memorializing of events in the countries of Asia, including China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines, using local language sources. They look at a broad range of media of memorialization, encompassing statues, cemeteries, testimonial literature, and film among others. An insightful resource for scholars of memory and cultural studies, as well as those of twentieth and twenty-first century Asian history"--
Other form:	ebook version : 9781000599213

Table of Contents:

Introduction. Struggling to remember : memory, representation, and contention / Chong Ja Ian
Cultural memories of state violence : a comparative study of Kwangju and Hiroshima / Kim Mikyoung
The making of Tiananmen Square as a realm of contested memories / Pan TsungYi
From dictator to hero : marcos, heroes cemeteries, and sites of cultural memory / Jocelyn S. Martin
The praxis of memory : the royal statue of King Prajadhipok / Thanavi Chotpradit
Reshuffling history : from Mengkerang to party, image (film) and it's overflowing history/time index system / Au Sow-Yee
(Un-)representability of history and visualisation of memory / Wu Chieh-Hsiang
Exorcising memory through cold confessions? Testimonial literature and the problems of ethics / Shao Yuh-Chuan
The politics and promise of memory : the white terror in Taiwan as example / Huang Han-Yu.

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