Title Dancing on bones : history and power in China, Russia and North Korea / Katie Stallard

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 286 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Myth -- Victory -- Enemies -- Memory -- Victims -- Truth -- Lies -- Control -- Heroes -- Patriots -- Conclusion: Power Summary "History didn't end. Democracy didn't triumph. America's leading role in the world is no longer assured. Instead, autocrats and populist strongmen are on the rise, and the global order established after 1945 is under attack. This is the phenomenon Katie Stallard tackles in Dancing on Bones, as she examines how the leaders of China, Russia, and North Korea manipulate the past to serve the present and secure the future of authoritarian rule. Russia has annexed Crimea, started a war in eastern Ukraine, and repeatedly massed troops on its borders. China has stepped up war games near Taiwan and militarized the South China Sea, while North Korea has resumed missile testing and blood-curdling threats against the United States. These three states consistently top lists of threats to US and European security, and yet the leaders of all three insist that it is their country that is threatened, rewriting history and exploiting the memory of the wars of the last century to justify their actions and shore up popular support. Since coming to power, Xi Jinping has almost doubled the length of China's World War II, Vladimir Putin has elevated the memory of the Great Patriotic War to the status of a national religion, and Kim Jong Un has invested vast sums in rebuilding war museums in his impoverished state, while those who try to challenge the official version of history are silenced and jailed. But this didn't start with Putin, Xi, and Kim, and it won't end with them. Drawing on first-hand, on-the-ground reporting, Dancing on Bones argues that if we want to understand where these three nuclear powers are heading, we must understand the stories they are telling their citizens about the past"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on February 10, 2023) Subject Memory -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation) Memory -- Political aspects -- China Memory -- Political aspects -- Korea (North) World War, 1939-1945 -- Historiography. Diplomatic relations Historiography Memory -- Political aspects Politics and government SUBJECT Russia (Federation) -- Politics and government -- 1991- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006576 Russia (Federation) -- Foreign relations -- 21st century China -- Politics and government -- 2002- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2004009498 China -- Foreign relations -- 21st century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007002707 Korea (North) -- Politics and government -- 2011- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2013000380 Korea (North) -- Foreign relations -- 21st century Subject China Korea (North) Russia (Federation) Form Electronic book Author Oxford University Press, publisher, distributor. ISBN 9780197575376 0197575374 9780197575383 0197575382 9780197575369 0197575366

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