Broken narratives : post-Cold War history and identity in Europe and East Asia / edited by Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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