Politics of Memory in Korea and China
Remembering the Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6308475 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jungmin Seo (0000-0001-9511-9677, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 30 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 369-392 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0739-3148 • E-ISSN: 1469-9931 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1080/07393140802269021 |
| OpenAlex | W1970941327 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
This study raises the question of “who” instead of “what” regarding the problem of collective memories in East Asia. To do so, I review the vicissitudes of the memories of two events, the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women, which are now firmly entrenched in popular memories as the core Japanese atrocities against her neighbors during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and the Pacific War (1941–1945). By prioritizing political subjects who can remember or forget—both as performative practices—I argue that history is the very central field of political struggles, not merely a tool for mobilization, in East Asia and the (re)emergence of the memories of the Nanjing Massacre and the Comfort Women in the international scene is more a function of the new subject formation in China and Korea than an un-mediated outcome of unearthed historical facts
China · Coercion (linguistics · Comfort women · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Sociology · History · Japanese History and Culture · Korean Peninsula Historical and Political Studies · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
Moralized memory and national identity in post-authoritarian East Asia
Negotiating cultural trauma in tourism
Regulated bodies, ungrievable lives
The affective life of the Nanjing Massacre
Memory in Interaction
Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland
Sharing Collective Memories on Campus While Sharing History Gets Tricky
The Task of an Activist
Cosmopolitanism nationalism and the heritage of shame
Remembering the ‘comfort women’
Affective Ties That Bind
Transnational comparison of ‘comfort women’ advocacy movements in Japan and South Korea
One museum, two stories
Diagnosing Korea–Japan relations through thick description
Curating War Memory under Constraint
Difficult heritage diplomacy? Re-articulating places of pain and shame as world heritage in northeast Asia
| Citations per year | 1.23 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |