Memory Studies in East Asia: A Handbook (Brill's Handbook Series in Memory Studies)

This peer-reviewed interdisciplinary handbook illuminates how memories of war, colonialism, displacement, authoritarianism, and environmental crisis shape contemporary East Asia. Bringing together international scholars from across memory studies, history, anthropology, art history, media studies, literature studies, and related fields, memory is discussed as a contested political, cultural, and transnational process. Subjects explored include activism, gender, urban space, Indigenous memory, visual culture, heritage politics, and environmental change. In these areas the handbook engages with key debates on multidirectional memory, victimhood nationalism, and global memory cultures. Mapping both established and emerging directions in the field, we offer an important reference work for scholars and students of memory studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, and related disciplines.