Politics of Memory in Korea and China: Remembering the Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre

Seo, Jungmin

doi:10.1080/07393140802269021

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“…Specialist institutions stimulate and inspire citizens and integrate them into a single community of remembrance (Wawrzyński 2014). Their role is not limited to the narrating of past events: they explain national history (Landsberg 1997), highlight links between the past and the present (Berman 2001;Worthy 2004), reinforce individuals' commitment to narratives (Cadot 2010;Freed 1989) and integrate remembrance narratives with essential definitions of national identity (Seo 2008). In the 21st century, however, specialist institutions have become so popular because they often offer less official communication.…”

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Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Wawrzyński¹,

Schattkowsky²

2015

Politics in Central Europe

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The paper presents the results of an experimental study of Polish students’ attitudes towards their government’s remembrance policy (or, in other words, the intentional narration and interpretation of the past by the government). It includes four parts: a justification of why remembrance is a significant political asset in post-Communist Poland; a classification of remembrance policy instruments; a presentation of general results of the study; and a discussion of participants’ attitudes to particular policy instruments. In our assessment of the general results, we discuss three types of collected data: the results of the initial measurement of attitudes; the results of measurement after the manipulation of emotions (neutral vs. positive vs. negative) and commitment (no commitment vs. low commitment); and the results in terms of attitude change. In the section on attitudes to particular instruments, we compare participants’ support for different commemorative actions with their support for the governments’ dominant role in the popularising of remembrance narratives. The study’s results lead us to formulate three conclusions about the relationships between attitudes to the policy and Polish political culture.

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Section: Figure 1: Relationships and Interdependencies Among Instrumementioning

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Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Wawrzyński¹,

Schattkowsky²

2015

Politics in Central Europe

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“…The Nanjing massacre was an episode of mass killing, looting, and rape committed by Japanese troops after the fall of Nanjing, China's capital, during the World War II (Gao & Alexander, 2012). Chinese today consider the massacre to be a traumatic national humiliation, and every year on December 13, the anniversary of Nanjing's fall, a series of public activities are held to commemorate the event (Seo, 2008). Chinese netizens engage actively with online memorials through posts on Chinese social networking tools.…”

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Affective Ties That Bind: Investigating the Affordances of Social Networking Sites for Commemoration of Traumatic Events

Song

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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Social networking sites (SNSs) facilitate self-expression and promote social connections. There has been growing scholarly attention to the affect-charged collectivities created online in the aftermath of disasters and mass traumas. This study was designed to examine how individuals affiliate in SNS-based commemoration of a mass trauma, taking advantage of a large Weibo (the Chinese equivalent of Twitter) data set which captures users' responses over 4 years to the anniversary of the Nanjing massacre, a major traumatic event in Chinese history. Machine learning-based content analysis was combined with dyadic-level network analysis to examine the content Weibo users create and the conversational structures they formed. The results reveal that homophily, geographic proximity, and preferential attachment work in tandem with displays of emotion to influence the formation of online conversational ties. Expressions of negative emotions were found to facilitate or inhibit the homophily effect. Being exposed to the display of anger amplifies the homophily effect among the users, while sadness weakens it. The findings point to the importance of examining specific emotions rather than global (positive-negative) feelings in understanding the dynamics of SNS-based interaction.

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“…Comfort women are another issue about which scholars and civil activists have connected the historical experiences and collective memories of the two countries (Seo 2008).…”

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Sharing Collective Memories on Campus While Sharing History Gets Tricky

Hong

2023

APSC

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During the past century, protest has become a shared experience around the world, as citizens across the continents have taken to the streets to demand political, social, and economic changes. In Asia—from China to India, Thailand to Myanmar—people have organized mass demonstrations to express their dissatisfaction with colonial and state governments and their policies. Often, people shared news and supported protests in neighboring countries, using it as an opportunity to mobilize and coordinate their efforts for protest and leading to a growing sense of regional solidarity. Solidarity is possible despite differences in culture, history, and language because the citizens in the region share universal values.

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Politics of Memory in Korea and China: Remembering the Comfort Women and the Nanjing Massacre

Cited by 29 publications

References 4 publications

Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Attitudes towards the Government’s Remembrance Policy in Poland: Results of an Experimental Study

Affective Ties That Bind: Investigating the Affordances of Social Networking Sites for Commemoration of Traumatic Events

Sharing Collective Memories on Campus While Sharing History Gets Tricky

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