5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction: War, Genocide, and Forced Migration 1
5. PART 1 Methodological and Theoretical Approaches
6. 1 From Hero’s Death to Suffering Victim: Reflections on the “Post-Heroic” Culture of Memory 21
7. 2 Victim Identities and the Dynamics of “Authentication”: Patterns of Shaping, Ranking, and Reassessment 50
8. PART 2 Victims of Genocide and Massacres
9. 3 Eastern European Shoah Victims and the Problem of Group Identity 79
10. 4 History on Trial before the Social Welfare Courts: Holocaust Survivors, German Judges, and the Struggle for “Ghetto Pensions” 94
11. 5 Construction of Victimhood in Contemporary China: Toward a Post-Heroic Representation of History? 104
12. 6 The “Death of Manila” in the Second World War and Its Postwar Commemoration 125
13. PART 3 War Victims
14. 7 Air Raid Victims in Japan’s Collective Remembrance of War 153
15. 8 Between Memory and Policy: How Societies of Leningrad Siege Survivors Remember the War 169
16. 9 Victims, Perpetrators, or Both? How History Textbooks and History Teachers in Post-Soviet Lithuania Remember Postwar Partisans 197
17. PART 4 Victims of Forced Migration and Deportations
18. 10 In Search of a Usable Memory: The Politics of History and the Day of Commemoration for German Forced Migrants after the Second World War 221
19. 11 Of Italian Perpetrators and Victims: Forced Migration in the Italian- Yugoslavian Border Region, 1922–1954 246
20. 12 Defiant Victims: The Deportation of the Chechen and the Memory of Stalinism in the Soviet Union and Russia 271
21. 13 East Asian Victimhood Goes to Paris: A Consideration of Second World War– Related Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Nominations to UNESCO’s Memory of the World Project 296
22. Contributors 317
23. Index 321