Cultures of Memory in Asia: Dynamics and Forms of Memorialization

Description

"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"-- Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Figures List of Contributors Editor’s Note Struggling to Remember: Memory, Representation and Contention Chapter 1 Cultural Memories of State Violence: A Comparative Study of Kwangju and Hiroshima Chapter 2 The Making of Tiananmen Square as a Realm of Contested Memories: National Salvation, Revolutionary Tradition and Political Modernity in Twentieth-Century China Chapter 3 From Dictator to Hero: Marcos, Heroes Cemeteries, and Sites of Cultural Memory Chapter 4 The Praxis of Memory: The Royal Statue of King Prajadhipok Chapter 5 Reshuffling History: From Mengkerang to Party, Image (Film) and Its Overflowing History/Time Index System Chapter 6 (Un-)Representability of History and Visualisation of Memory: Examples from Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong Chapter 7 ‘Exorcising Memory through Cold Confessions?’: Testimonial Literature and the Problem of Ethics in Gao Xingjian’s One Man’s Bible Chapter 8 The Politics and Promise of Memory: The White Terror in Taiwan as Example Index