Rana Mitter

University Lecturer in History and Politics of Modern China Rana Mitter

This book examines the impact of one of the most crucial events in twentieth-century international history, the Japanese occupation of Northeast China, or Manchuria, in the years 1931-1933.

Nationalism, Resistance, and Collaboration in Modern China

The Manchurian Myth

Sheila Miyoshi Jager

Luce Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies Sheila Miyoshi Jager

What has the end of the Cold War meant for East Asia, and for how its people understand their recent history? These thought-provoking essays explore a vigorously contested area in public culture, the wars of the modern era. All the major East Asian states have undergone a profound reassessment of their experiences from World War II to Vietnam. New and at times aggressive forms of nationalism in Japan, China, South Korea, Vietnam, and Taiwan have affected American security policy in the Pacific and posed a challenge to the post-communist world order. Japan has met fervent opposition to its premiers' visits to the Yasukuni shrine honoring the wartime dead. China has reclaimed a forgotten war history, such as the positive contributions of Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. South Korea has embraced an interpretation of the Korean War that is hostile to the United States and sympathetic to its North Korean adversaries. This volume not only illuminates regional and global changes in East Asia today, but also underscores the need for rethinking the Cold War language that continues to inform U.S.-East Asian relations.

War, Memory, and the Post-Cold War in Asia

Ruptured Histories

Patrick Major

This book asks the reader to reassess the Cold War not just as superpower conflict and high diplomacy, but as social and cultural history. It makes cross-cultural comparisons of the socio cultural aspects of the Cold War across the East/West block divide, dealing with issues including broadcasting, public opinion, and the production and consumption of popular culture.

University Lecturer in History and Politics of Modern China Rana Mitter

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