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Πολιτικές χρήσεις του παρελθόντος στην Ανατολική Ασία

Journal of Political and Moral Theory

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Title Πολιτικές χρήσεις του παρελθόντος στην Ανατολική Ασία
Political usages of the past in East Asia
 
Creator Weber, Torsten
 
Subject Πολιτικές Επιστήμες
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Political Science
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This article discusses the mechanisms of the political usage of the past in the context of the historical reconciliation between China and Japan after World War II. It focuses on the debate concerning the authenticity and significance of what has become the most controversial event in the modern history of Chinese-Japanese relations: the Nanking Massacre committed by the Japanese Army in the beginning of the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-45). Drawing on a theoretical framework proposed by the historian Paul A. Cohen, this paper seeks to explain how the search for historical truth -in the common sense of the word- has been framed by the political instrumentalisation of the event for public memory. It considers mythologization as the main means of the antagonistic and partisan use of the past, which not only obstructs the reconciliation between the two countries and peoples, but also impedes processes of regional integration in present-day East Asia.
 
Publisher Συντακτική Επιτροπή
 
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Date 2015-07-20
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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Format application/pdf
 
Identifier https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/view/566
10.12681/sas.566
 
Source Επιστήμη και Κοινωνία: Επιθεώρηση Πολιτικής και Ηθικής Θεωρίας; Τόμ. 32 (2014): Μαζική βία και θύματα; 121-141
Science and Society: Journal of Political and Moral Theory; Τόμ. 32 (2014): Μαζική βία και θύματα; 121-141
1108-3697
 
Language ell
 
Relation https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/sas/article/view/566/775
 
Rights http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0