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The problem of memory in China, Japan and Korea involves a surfeit rather than a deficit of memory, and the consequence of this excess is negative: unforgettable traumas prevent nations from coming to terms with the problems of the present. These compelling essays enrich Western scholarship by applying to it insights derived from Asian settings.

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Introduction: Northeast Asia´s Memory Problem; B.Schwartz & M.Kim PART I: JAPAN STUDIES The Yasukuni Conundrum: Japan´s Contested Identity and Memory; M.Mochizuki Japanese Pacifism: Problematic Reflexivity; M.Kim Responsibility, Regret, and Nationality in Japanese Memory; K.Fukuoka & B.Schwartz PART II: CHINA STUDIES Political Centers, Progressive Narrative, and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937-1979; X.Xu & L.Spillman Alternative Genres, New Media, and Counter Memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution; G.Yang The Changing Fate of the National Anthem of China; T.Liao, G.Zhang & L.Zhang Memory Movement and State-Society Relationship: The Chinese World War II Victims´ Reparations Movement against Japan; B.Xu & G.Fine PART III: KOREA STUDIES Exacerbated Politics: The Legacy of Political Trauma in South Korea; D.Baker The Chosôn Monarchy in Republican Korea, 1945-1965; C.Kim Parallax Visions in the Dokdo-Takeshima Disputes; H.Kwon Epilogue: Caught between Contentions and Dialogues: Historical Memories in Northeast Asia; J.J.Suh Index

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´A landmark volume - destined to be a classic in the expanding field of memory studies.´

- James V. Wertsch, Marshall S. Snow Professor in Arts and Sciences and Director, McDonnell International Scholars Academy, Washington University in St. Louis, USA

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