10. Behind the Curtain: Forces Shaping Sino-Japanese Postwar Attitudes toward Justice

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Note on Transliteration xiii
5. Maps xiv
6. Introduction: Making Bad Television 1
7. 1. The Kaleidoscope of Defeat in East Asia 6
8. 2. The Shape of Justice: Creating New Symbols of International Stature 25
9. 3. When the Hero of Your Story Is the Villain of Another 42
10. 4. Laying Blame for Japan’s War Responsibility 58
11. 5. The Tyranny of Tiny Decisions: The Failure of the Japanese Left 78
12. 6. The Violence of Imperial Dissolution at the Periphery 96
13. 7. The Geography of Power: Producing Political Legitimacy in Republican China 119
14. 8. Creating a Theater of Law in Mao’s China 136
15. 9. The Pathology of Justice in Post-Occupation Japan 169
16. 10. Behind the Curtain: Forces Shaping Sino-Japanese Postwar Attitudes toward Justice 187
17. 11. Evaporating Legal Memory and KMT War Criminals 204
18. 12. Owning the War: Constructing the Contours of National History, 1970s–1980s 221
19. 13. Afterlives of the Damned: The Commemoration of Justice and Injustice, 1990s to the Present 240
20. Conclusion: The Poverty of Political Ambition in East Asia 254
21. Glossary of Japanese and Chinese Names and Terms 261
22. Notes 271
23. Archival Sources 327
24. Index 331