Rethinking historical injustice and reconciliation in Northeast Asia the Korean experience

Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea -- I. The counter-narratives and the voices of World War II : an update -- 1. The Korean? comfort women? tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh, SF State University -- 2. The resignification of the comfort women? through NGO trials...

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Weitere Verfasser: Sin, Ki-uk (HerausgeberIn), Yang, Daqing (HerausgeberIn), Park, Soon-won (HerausgeberIn)
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Veröffentlicht: London u.a. Routledge 2007
Schriftenreihe:Politics in Asia series
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Zusammenfassung:Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea -- I. The counter-narratives and the voices of World War II : an update -- 1. The Korean? comfort women? tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh, SF State University -- 2. The resignification of the comfort women? through NGO trials / Hideko Mitsui, Stanford University -- 3. The politics of remembrance: the case of Korean forced laborers in World War II / Soon-won Park, Howard University -- II. Democratization and domestic historical injustice -- 4. The war against the enemy within?: hidden massacres in the early stages of the Korean War / Dong-choon Kim, Song Kong Hoe University -- 5. Justice incomplete: the remedies for the victims of Jeju April Third Incidents / Tae Ung Baik, University of British Columbia -- 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook meets Charlie / Kyung-yoong Bay, Shiga Prefecture University -- Part II. Toward a Northeast Asian approach to historical injustice? -- III. Korean experience in comparative perspective -- 7. The aesthetic construction of ethnic nationalism: War Memorial Museums in Korea and Japan / Hong kal, York University -- 8. Difficult neighbors: Japan and North Korea / Gavan mccormack, Australian National University -- Dynamics of denial: responses to past atrocities in Germany, Turkey and Japan / John Torpey, University of British Columbia -- IV. Reconciliation and regional cooperation -- 10. A strong state, weak civil society and cold war geopolitics / Andrew Horvat, Tokyo Keizai University -- 11. Pop culture, public memory and Korean-Japanese relations / Chiho Sawada, Stanford University -- 12. Economic Integration and Reconciliation in Northeast Asia: Possibilities and Limitations / Wonhyuk Lim, Korea Development Institute
Part I. Coming to terms with the darker past in Korea -- 1. The Korean "comfort women" tragedy as structural violence / Chunghee Sarah Soh -- 2. The resignification of the "comfort women" through NGO trials / Hideko Mitsui -- 3. The politics of remembrance : the case of Korean forced laborers in the Second World War / Soon-won Park -- 4. The war against the "enemy within" : hidden massacres in the early stages of the Korean War / Dong-choon Kim -- 5. Justice incomplete : the remedies for the victims of Jeju April Third Incidents / Tae-Ung Baik -- 6. From Seoul to Saigon: Gook meets Charlie / Kyung-yoong Bay -- Part II. Toward a Northeast Asian approach to historical injustice? -- 7. The aesthetic construction of ethnic nationalism : war memorial museums in Korea and Japan / Hong Kal -- 8. Difficult neighbors : Japan and North Korea / Gavan McCormack -- 9. Dynamics of denial : responses to past atrocities in Germany, Turkey, and Japan / John Torpey -- 10. Pop culture, public memory, and Korean-Japanese relations / Chiho Sawada -- 11. A strong state, weak civil society and Cold War geopolitics : why Japan lags behind Europe in confronting a negative past / Andrew Horvat -- 12. Economic integration and reconciliation in Northeast Asia : possibilities and limitations / Wonhyuk Lim
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XV, 266 Seiten
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25 cm
ISBN:0203967046
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