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1 online resource (x, 261 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Leiden Series in Comparative Historiography
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Leiden series in comparative historiography.
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| Summary |
This book offers an account of the difficulties of (re- )writing European and East Asian history after the end of the Cold War. Despite the search for a new master narrative, polyphony and dissonances are produced: the year 1989 has generated broken narratives. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Notes on contributors -- Introduction: Writing history into broken narratives / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- Part 1. Cinematic contributions to post-Cold War historiography -- "Europe in the mist" : the imaginary of European history in Lars von Trier's Europa and in Dancer in the dark / Peter Verstraten -- Hiroshima as a personal and national allegory : revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H story / Rotem Kowner -- The individual and the war : re-remembering the Sino-Japanese War in the TV series A spring river flows east / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Carsten Schafer -- Chinese cinema in the post-Cold War era and the legacy of the Sino-Japanese War : Devils on the doorstep and Purple sunset / Martin Gieselmann -- Part 2. Post-colonialist contributions to post-Cold War historiography -- Rewriting the history of colonialism in South Korea / Yonson Ahn -- Colonialism and modernity in Taiwan : reflections on contemporary Taiwanese historiography / Chang Lung-chih -- Staging local history between empires : Shandong Boxer resistance as Maoqiang opera / Andrea Riemenschnitter -- Part 3. Cold War roots of post-Cold War historiography -- The "third road" concept in 1956 Hungary / Shingo Minamizuka -- Confessions of Japanese POWs after re-education in China / Petra Buchholz -- Concluding remarks: The geopolitics of memory / Tatiana Zhurzhenko. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Social change -- Europe.
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Social change. |
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Europe. |
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Social change -- East Asia.
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East Asia. |
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Collective memory -- Europe.
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Collective memory. |
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Collective memory -- East Asia.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Weigelin-Schwiedrzik, Susanne, author, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Broken narratives. Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014] 9789004268777 (DLC) 2014014579 (OCoLC)879552947 |
| ISBN |
9789004277236 (electronic book) |
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9004277234 (electronic book) |
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9789004268777 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004268774 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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