Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: The Search for Meaning in Defeat and Victory 1
4. Section 1: Collaboration and Dilemmas of Deimperialization
5. 1. The Politics of Collaboration in Post-liberation Southern Korea 25
6. 2. Punishing Han Traitors beyond Chinese Borders 50
7. 3. Colonial Legacies, War Memories, and Political Violence in Taiwan, 1945–1947 76
8. 4. Bullets of a Defeated Nation: The 1946 Shibuya Incident 98
9. Section 2: Negotiating Past and Present in the Military and Political Realms
10. 5. The Repatriation of Surrendered Japanese Troops, 1945–1947 119
11. 6. Ordered to Disarm, Encouraged to Rearm: Japan’s Struggles with the Postwar 139
12. 7. Politics in a Fallen Empire: Kishi Nobusuke and the Making of the Conservative Hegemony in Japan 161
13. Section 3: Returning to the Continent, Japan’s Relations with New China
14. 8. Diplomatic Salvation: Buddhist Exchanges and Sino-Japanese Rapprochement 185
15. 9. Reconstructing Sino-Japanese Friendship: East Asian Literary Camaraderie in Postwar Japan’s Sinitic Poetry Scene 204
16. Contributors 225
17. Index 229