Anti-Japan

Klappentext Leo T. S. Ching is Associate Professor of Japanese and East Asian Cultural Studies at Duke University and author of Becoming "Japanese": Colonial Taiwan and the Politics of Identity Formation. Zusammenfassung Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia! showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation! the U.S. military presence! and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.

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Leo T. S. Ching traces the complex dynamics that shape persisting negative attitudes toward Japan throughout East Asia, showing how anti-Japanism stems from the failed efforts at decolonization and reconciliation, the U.S. military presence, and shifting geopolitical and economic conditions in the region.

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Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Anti-Japanism (and Pro-Japanism) in East Asia 1

1. When Bruce Lee Meets Gojira: Transimperial Characters, Anti-Japanism, Anti-Americanism, and the Failure of Decolonization 19
2. "Japanese Devils": The Conditions and Limits of Anti-Japanism in China 36
3. Shameful Bodies, Bodily Shame: "Comfort Women" and Anti-Japanism in South Korea 57
4. Colonial Nostalgia or Postcolonial Anxiety: The D san Generation In-Between "Retrocession" and "Defeat" 80
5. "In the Name of Love": Critical Regionalism and Co-Viviality in Post-East Asia 98
6. Reconciliation Otherwise: Intimacy, Indigeneity, and the Taiwan Difference 115
   Epilogue. From Anti-Japanism to Decolonizing Democracy: Youth Protests in East Asia 132
   Notes 143
   References 153
   Index 161