| ID | 078683 |
| Title Proper | China's "New Remembering" of the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance, 1937-1945 |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Coble, Parks M |
| Publication | 2007. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In today's China, memory of the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-45 is often a front page issue, a source of diplomatic friction between Beijing and Tokyo. Yet in Mao's era, public memory of this conflict virtually disappeared. Only the role of communist forces under Chairman Mao was commemorated; other memories were consigned to historical oblivion. This article examines the process by which memory of the war re-appeared in the reform era. Because the government has emphasized nationalism, the new memory of the war has stressed a patriotic nationalist narrative of heroic resistance. At the same time, a second major theme has been the emphasis on Japanese atrocities, virtually a "numbers game" in historical writing. Thus despite the voluminous publications which have appeared since the 1980s, the new writing on the war has stressed certain themes while neglecting others |
| `In' analytical Note | China Quarterly No. 190; Jun 2007: p394-410 |
| Journal Source | China Quarterly No. 190; Jun 2007: p394-410 |
| Key Words | China- Japan war ; China ; Japan |