Research Catalog

Title

Legacies of World War II in South and East Asia / edited by David Koh Wee Hock.

Publication

Singapore : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007.

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Additional Authors

• Koh, David W. H. (David Wee Hock)
• Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

Description

xvii, 212 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Sixty years after the end of World War II, the political and social fallout from the War is alive and divisive, as scholars in this volume show. One example is how former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni Shrine preveneted China, Japan and South Korea from sitting down together to talk about Northeast Asia integration, and wider Asian intergration, Another example is the question of comfort women. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's statement - that there is no evidence that Japan's government or army forced women to work in military brothels during the War - appeared to go back on a 1993 apology for the comfort women. How such issues of history are delt with by contries of this region had an effect on contemporary relations among the major powerws contending for leadership in East Asia."--Backcover.

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Alternative Title

• Legacies of World War 2 in South and East Asia
• Legacies of World War Two in South and East Asia

Subject

• World War, 1939-1945 > East Asia > Congresses
• World War, 1939-1945 > South Asia > Congresses
• World War, 1939-1945 > Southeast Asia > Congresses
• East Asia > Politics and government > 1945- > Congresses
• South Asia > Politics and government > 20th century > Congresses
• Southeast Asia > Politics and government > 1945- > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Conference papers and proceedings.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface / K. Kesavapany -- Foreword / Tan Tai Yong -- Opening remarks / Wang Gungwu -- A long view on the Great Asian War / Tim Harper -- Legacies of World War II in Indochina / David Chandler -- Transient and enduring legacies of World War II : the case of Indonesia / Richard Z. Leirissa -- The 'black-out' syndrome and the ghosts of World War II : the war as a 'divisive issue' in Malaysia / Cheah Boon Kheng -- The legacies of World War II for Myanmar / Robert H. Taylor -- World War II : transient and enduring legacies for the Philippines / Reynaldo C. Ileto -- Singapore's missing war / Asad-ul Iqbal Latif -- World War II and Thailand after sixty years : legacies and latent side effects / Thitinan Pongsudhirak -- Remembering World War II : legacies of the war fought in China / Huang Jianli -- How to assess World War II in world history : one Japanese perspective / Takashi Inoguchi -- Obstacles to European style historical reconciliation between Japan and South Korea : a practitioner's perspective / Andrew Horvat -- World War II legacies for India / Sunanda K. Datta-Ray.

ISBN

• 9789812303288 (pbk.)
• 9789812304681 (hard)
• 9789812304575 (pdf)

LCCN

^^2007442769

OCLC

• 181089750
• SCSB-12879189

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library