Northeast Asia's Difficult Past: Essays in Collective Memory - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0230237479 ISBN 13 : 9780230237476

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

Asia's 'Memory Problem' is unique. Chinese, Japanese and Koreans assign great significance to their national pasts; disagreements about one another's history and commemorative practices are heated and affect diplomatic and economic relationships. Honour and shame societies teach their members to think about the past differently than do societies of dignity and guilt. In Northeast Asia, the events judged most negative reveal weakness or incompetence, and they induce shame. For this reason, the Western 'politics of regret', which include practices based on violations of dignity and a sense of collective guilt, cannot be directly generalized to Northeast Asian cultures. These cultures are, thus, privileged sites for the study of memory. In no other regional setting is the interdependence of history, commemoration and belief so significant and problematic. In no other setting is the Memory Problem so acute.

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MIKYOUNG KIM is Assistant Professor of International Security at the Hiroshima Peace Institute-Hiroshima City University, Japan. She is the author of North Korean Human Rights Debates in East Asia, and has also published several journal articles on memory, North Korean human rights, and gender.

BARRY SCHWARTZ is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Georgia, USA. He is the author of numerous articles, and his most recent book is Abraham Lincoln in the Post-Heroic Era: History and Memory in the Late Twentieth Century. He has addressed collective memory issues through a wide range of topics, including comparative studies involving the United States, Germany, Japan, Korea, China, and ancient and modern Israel.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0230237479
• ISBN 13: 9780230237476
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 276