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Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding

Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding

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Series: Soas Studies in Modern and Contemporary Japan

General World HistoryJapanese History

ISBN10: 1350253014
ISBN13: 9781350253018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Jun 17 2021
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

When Emperor Hirohito announced defeat in a radio broadcast on 15th August 1945, Japan was not merely a nation; it was a colossal empire stretching from the tip of Alaska to the fringes of Australia grown out of a colonial ideology that continued to pervade East Asian society for years after the end of the Second World War. In Overcoming Empire in Post-Imperial East Asia: Repatriation, Redress and Rebuilding, Barak Kushner and Sherzod Muminov bring together an international team of leading scholars to explore the post-imperial history of the region.

From international aid to postwar cinema to chemical warfare, these essays all focus on the aftermath of Japan's aggressive warfare and the new international strategies which Japan, China, Taiwan, North and South Korea utilised following the end of the war and the collapse of Japan's empire. The result is a nuanced analysis of the transformation of postwar national identities, colonial politics, and the reordering of society in East Asia. With its innovative comparative and transnational perspective, this book is essential reading for scholars of modern East Asian history, the cold war, and the history of decolonisation.

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