Categorising victimhood: Manchukuo and the gendered national history of the Japanese Empire’s violent collapse in northeast Asia

Muminov, Sherzod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0761-5740 (2017) Categorising victimhood: Manchukuo and the gendered national history of the Japanese Empire’s violent collapse in northeast Asia. Situations: Cultural Studies in the Asian Context, 10 (1). pp. 23-40. ISSN 2288-7822

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Abstract

National victimhood is rarely immutable or permanent; instead, it reflects the transformations in society and ideas about citizenship. In Cold War historiography, the Japanese empire—a behemoth that controlled more than 7.5 million square kilometres of land and sea and ruled over millions of imperial subjects—has mostly been analysed through the lens of national history. This national framework has often discounted the importance of empire and ignored its many legacies. One consequence of this limited vision was the categorisation of Japanese victimhood along the lines of gender and the civilian-military divide. These divisions and omissions were not limited to the non-Japanese—even former “defenders of empire” might find themselves left out of the mainstream accounts of history.

Item Type:	Article
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of History
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Global & Transnational History Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Centre for Japanese Studies
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Date Deposited:	12 Apr 2018 15:31
Last Modified:	06 Jan 2024 01:34
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/66753
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