Anti-Japan : the politics of sentiment in postcolonial East Asia /

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Author / Creator:	Ching, Leo T. S., 1962- author.
Edition:	[Open access version].
Imprint:	Durham : Duke University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Subject:	World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence. Nationalism -- Japan -- History. Imperialism -- History -- 20th century. Nationalism. International relations. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) Imperialism. East Asia -- Relations -- Japan. Japan -- Relations -- East Asia. East Asia -- Relations -- United States. United States -- Relations -- East Asia. Japan -- Foreign public opinion, East Asian. United States -- Foreign public opinion, East Asian. United States. Japan. East Asia. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13368277

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ISBN:	9781478090014 1478090014
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-160) and index. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2022).
Summary:	Although the Japanese empire rapidly dissolved following the end of World War II, the memories, mourning, and trauma of the nation's imperial exploits continue to haunt Korea, China, and Taiwan. In 'Anti-Japan' Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia. Drawing on a mix of literature, film, testimonies, and popular culture, Ching shows how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the Cold War and the ongoing U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region. At the same time, pro-Japan sentiments in Taiwan reveal a Taiwanese desire to recoup that which was lost after the Japanese empire fell. Anti-Japanism, Ching contends, is less about Japan itself than it is about the real and imagined relationships between it and China, Korea, and Taiwan. Advocating for forms of healing that do not depend on state-based diplomacy, Ching suggests that reconciliation requires that Japan acknowledge and take responsibility for its imperial history.
Other form:	Online version: Ching, Leo T.S., 1962- Anti-Japan. Durham : Duke University Press, 2019 9781478003359

Table of Contents:

When Bruce Lee meets Gojira : transimperial characters, anti-Japanism, anti-Americanism, and the failure of decolonization
"Japanese devils" : the conditions and limits of anti-Japanism in China
Shameful bodies, bodily shame : "comfort women" and anti-Japanism in South Korea
Colonial nostalgia or postcolonial anxiety : the Dōsan generation in-between "retrocession" and "defeat"
"In the name of love" : critical regionalism and co-viviality in post-East Asia
Reconciliation otherwise : intimacy, indigeneity, and the Taiwan difference.

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