The Dismantling of Japan's Empire in East Asia
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50013-6 (ISBN)
Barak Kushner teaches Japanese history at the University of Cambridge and is the author of Men to Devils, Devils to Men: Japanese War Crimes and Chinese Justice (winner of the American Historical Association's 2016 John K. Fairbank Prize). Sherzod Muminov is a Research Associate in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.
Introduction: Angles of Empire
Part I: The New Postwar Order - Meaning and Significance
1. The Decline of the Japanese Empire and the Transformation of the Regional Order in East Asia
2. "De-imperialization" in Early Postwar Japan: Adjusting and Transforming Institutions of Empire
3. Imperial Loss and Japan’s Search for Postwar Legitimacy
4. Collapse of the Japanese Empire and the Great Migrations: Repatriation, Assimilation, and Remaining Behind
Part II: War Criminals, POWS, and the Imperial Breakdown
5. The Shifting Politics of Guilt: the Campaign for the Release of Japanese War Criminals
6. Allied POWs in Korea: Life and Death during the Pacific War
7. Carceral Geographies of Japan’s Vanishing Empire: War Criminals’ Prisons in Asia
8. Prejudice, Punishment and Propaganda: Post-Imperial Japan and the Soviet Versions of History and Justice in East Asia, 1945-1956
Part III: Diplomacy, Law, and the End of Empire
9. Sublimating the Empire: How Japanese Experts of International Law Translated "Greater East Asia" into the Postwar Period
10. The transformation of a Manchukuo imperial bureaucrat to postwar supporter of the Yoshida Doctrine: the case of Shiina Etsusaburō
11. North Korean Nation Building and Japanese Imperialism: People’s Nation, "People’s Diplomacy" and the Japanese Technicians
12. Humanitarian Hero or Communist Stooge? The Ambivalent Japanese Reception of Li Dequan in 1954
Part IV: Media and the Imperial Aftermath
13. The "Pacifist" Magazine Sekai: A Barometer of Postwar Thought
14. Post-imperial Broadcasting Networks in China and Manchuria
15. Parting the Bamboo Curtain: Japanese Cold War Film Exchange with China
Comparative Epilogue
16. Germany as a role model? Coming to terms with Nazi War deeds, 1945-2015
Erscheinungsdatum | 15.02.2018 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia |
Zusatzinfo | 12 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Gewicht | 640 g |
Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-50013-5 / 1138500135 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-50013-6 / 9781138500136 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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