| Contents |
Introduction. Frontiers of memory in the Asia-Pacific : difficult heritage and the transnational politics of postcolonial nationalism / Shu-Mei Huang, Edward Vickers, and Hyun Kyung Lee, page 1 -- 1. Lapped by the tide : borders of memory on the island of Peleliu, Palau / Edward Boyle, page 27 -- 2. Whose difficult heritage? Contesting indigenous Ainu representations / Roslynn Ang, page 45 -- 3. Taipei's National Martyr's Shrine : the past and present lives of a difficult monument / Lu Pan, page 64 -- 4. Unsettling the familiar : Hong Kong's colonial policing heritage / Lachlan B. Barber, page 83 -- 5. Beyond a racialized representation of colonial quarantine : recollecting the many pasts of St John's Island, Singapore / Desmond Hok-Man Sham, page 103 -- 6. The prison gate as leftist heritage? Political indifference and the pursuit of 'healthy nationalism' in Japan / Tomoko Ako, page 124 -- 7. Organic heritage diplomacy in the Asia-Pacific region : reconciliatory landscapes / Anoma Pieris, page 143 -- 8. Staking claims to difficult memories : diplomacy and Jewish heritage in Shanghai and beyond / Shu-Mei Huang, page 165 -- 9. From offshore heritage to shared heritage : transnational difficult heritage making and the Shanghai Provisional Government of Korea / Hyun Kyung Lee, page 187 -- 10. Mapping Kyushu's war-related heritage : hard and soft frontiers of memory in Japan's 'Asian' gateway / Edward Vickers, page 209. |
| Abstract |
Frontiers of Memory in the Asia-Pacific explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on 'difficult heritage', this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as 'heritage' in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. The volume shows how efforts to preserve various sites of 'difficult heritage' can involve the construction of new borders in the mind between what is commemorated and what is often deliberately obscured or forgotten. Taken together, the studies presented here suggest new directions for comparative research into difficult heritage across Asia and beyond, applying an interdisciplinary and critical perspective that spans history, heritage studies, memory studies, urban studies, architecture, and international relations. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9789888754939 |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9789888754144 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 9888754149 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |
