Toward a history beyond borders
Subtitle: contentious issues in Sino-Japanese relations
By: edited by Daqing Yang ... [et al.].
Series: Harvard East Asian monographs -- 340
Publisher: Published by the Harvard University Asia Center; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Harvard University Press; Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780674062566
Subjects: Relations
Other titles: Contentious issues in Sino-Japanese relations
Work titles: Kokkyō o koeru rekishi ninshiki. English
Description: This volume brings to English-language readers the results of an important long-term project of historians from China and Japan addressing contentious issues in their shared modern histories. Originally published simultaneously in Chinese and Japanese in 2006, the thirteen essays in this collection focus renewed attention on a set of political and historiographical controversies that have steered and stymied Sino-Japanese relations from the mid-nineteenth century through World War II to the present. These in-depth contributions explore a range of themes, from prewar diplomatic relations and conflicts, to wartime collaboration and atrocity, to postwar commemorations and textbook debates -- all while grappling with the core issue of how history has been researched, written, taught, and understood in both countries. In the context of a wider trend toward cross-national dialogues over historical issues, this volume can be read as both a progress report and a case study of the effort to overcome contentious problems of history in East Asia.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to the English edition / Daqing Yang and Andrew Gordon; title: Introduction to the Japanese edition / Liu Jie; title: Modes of narrating the history of Sino-Japanese relations: the latter half of the nineteenth century / Motegi Toshio; title: A prototype of close relations and antagonism: from the first Sino-Japanese War to the Twenty-one Demands / Kawashima Shin; title: Sino-Japanese diplomacy during cycles of mutual antagonism: on the eve of the Manchurian Incident / Liu Jie; title: Controversies over the Tanaka Memorial / Hattori Ryuji; title: Issues in the history of Manzhouguo: contemporary and succeeding perspectives / Higuchi Hidemi; title: The Nanjing Atrocity: is constructive dialogue possible? / Daqing Yang; title: Wang Jingwei and the "Nanjing Nationalist Government:" between collaboration and resistance / Liu Jie; title: Japan's history textbook system and its controversies / Mitani Hiroshi; title: Sino-Japanese mutual understanding as seen in history textbooks / Ibaraki Satoshi; title: Historical perceptions of Taiwan's Japan era / Asano Tomomi; title: Politics and commemoration in postwar Japan / Murai Ryota; title: From war reparation to postwar reparation / Yang Zhihui; title: Historical dialogue and documentary research / Kawashima Shin; title: Postscript to the Japanese edition / Mitani Hiroshi.