Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy explores the issue of memory and lack of reconciliation in East Asia. Main East Asian nations have never achieved a common memory of their pasts, and in particular of the events of the Second World War and the Sino-Japanese war. Today this is a relevant political problem: enmity and nationalism stemming from the presence of conflicting memories of pasts contribute to making bilateral relations between China and Japan (but also between Japan and South Korea and other South East Asian nations) more difficult and conflicting. This book locates the issue of memory within International Relations theory, exploring the theoretical and practical link between the construction of a country's identity, the formation and the contestation of its historical memory and its foreign policy. Provides an innovative theoretical frameworkDraws connections between the role of memory and foreign policyUses the interpretative theory of international relationsGives comparative perspective using the cases of China and JapanPresents in-depth analysis of the construction and contestation of national memory in China and Japan INDICE: Table of contents Acknowledgements Chapter 1: Theorizing the role of collective memory in international politics Introduction Memory, history and the idea of usable past. Remembering, forgetting, censoring and foreign policy. Memory and the interpretive approach. The outline of the Book. Chapter 2 Japan's memory during the post-war period (1945-1989) Introduction. Japanese victims and the American wedge. The Conservative tradition. The Japanese Left and the post-war Anti-Militarism. The Yoshida Doctrine between strategy and memory. The Vietnam War and the opening to China. The rise of neo-conservatives. Conclusion. Ch. 3 The battle of memory in the Heisei Era Introduction. The End of Showa as dilemma. The first Progressive interlude. The Conservative backlash and the normalization of Japan. The Democratic Party of Japan and the second progressive interlude. Abe Shinzo and the end of the post war regime. Conclusion. Chapter 4. China's Collective Memory between the Revolution and Tiananmen Square. Introduction The tradition of National Salvation Class struggle, the victor narrative and the good Japanese. Collective memory and foreign policy during the Mao period. Deng and the reversal of verdicts on China's past. Deng's China: towards modernity, wealth and power. Conclusion. Chapter 5 Collective memory and foreign policy after the Cold War. Intro Tiananmen Square and the dilemmas of 1989. The Patriotic Education and the Return of the Century of Humiliation. Japan as new chosen trauma Memories of Mao The re-evaluation of the Kuomintang. The Return of Confucius. China's foreign policy between humiliation and harmony Conclusion. Chapter 6 Conclusion. Bibliography
- ISBN: 978-0-08-102027-2
- Editorial: Elsevier
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/01/2017
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés