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Author Kushner, Barak

Title In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire Imperial Violence, State Destruction, and the Reordering of Modern East Asia
Published HK : Hong Kong University Press, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (253 p.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Search for Meaning in Defeat and Victory -- Section 1: Collaboration and Dilemmas of Deimperialization -- 1. The Politics of Collaboration in Post-liberation Southern Korea -- 2. Punishing Han Traitors beyond Chinese Borders -- 3. Colonial Legacies, War Memories, and Political Violence in Taiwan, 1945-1947 -- 4. Bullets of a Defeated Nation: The 1946 Shibuya Incident -- Section 2: Negotiating Past and Present in the Military and Political Realms -- 5. The Repatriation of Surrendered Japanese Troops, 1945-1947
6. Ordered to Disarm, Encouraged to Rearm: Japan's Struggles with the Postwar -- 7. Politics in a Fallen Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of the Conservative Hegemony in Japan -- Section 3: Returning to the Continent, Japan's Relations with New China -- 8. Diplomatic Salvation: Buddhist Exchanges and Sino-Japanese Rapprochement -- 9. Reconstructing Sino-Japanese Friendship: East Asian Literary Camaraderie in Postwar Japan's Sinitic Poetry Scene -- Contributors -- Index
Summary In the Ruins of the Japanese Empire concludes that early East Asian Cold War history needs to be studied within the framework of post-imperial history. Japan's surrender did not mean that the Japanese and former imperial subjects would immediately disavow imperial ideology. The end of the Japanese empire unleashed unprecedented destruction and violence on the periphery. Lives were destroyed; names of cities altered; collaborationist regimes--which for over a decade dominated vast populations--melted into the air as policeman, bureaucrats, soldiers, and technocrats offered their services as nat
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Cold War.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japan.
Japan
Form Electronic book
Author Levidis, Andrew
ISBN 9789882206571
9882206573