The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1: Memory fragments, memory images
6. Absent Images of Memory: Remembering and Reenacting the Japanese Internment 33
7. The Malleable and the Contested: The Nanjing Massacre in Postwar China and Japan 50
8. Memories of War and Okinawa 87
9. Images of Islanders in Pacific War Photographs 107
10. Imagery and War in Japan: 1995 129
11. 2: Politics and poetics of liberation
12. Deliberating ‘‘Liberation Day’’: Identity, History, Memory, and War in Guam 155
13. Imperial Army Betrayed 181
14. Korean ‘‘Imperial Soldiers’’: Remembering Colonialism and Crimes against Allied POWs 199
15. Memory Suppression and Memory Production: The Japanese Occupation of Singapore 218
16. Go for Broke, the Movie: Japanese American Soldiers in U.S. National, Military, and Racial Discourses 239
17. Moving History: The Pearl Harbor Film(s) 267
18. 3: Atonement, healing, and unexpected alliances
19. ‘‘Trapped in History’’ on the Way to Utopia: East Asia’s ‘‘Great War’’ Fifty Years Later 299
20. For Transformative Knowledge and Postnationalist Public Spheres: The Smithsonian Enola Gay Controversy 323
21. ‘‘Frantic to Join . . . the Japanese Army’’: Black Soldiers and Civilians Confront the Asia-Pacific War 347
22. Colonialism and Atom Bombs: About Survivors of Hiroshima Living in Korea 378
23. The Politics of War Memories toward Healing 395
24. Bibliography 411
25. Filmography 435
26. Index 437
27. Contributors 461