Dryburgh, M.E. orcid.org/0000-0003-2452-2543 (2019) Life histories and national narratives : remembering occupied Manchuria in post-war China. History Workshop Journal, 88. pp. 229-251. ISSN 1363-3554
Abstract
Recent studies of memory work in China have explored productively the uses of national narratives of war and victimhood, at times supported by personal testimony, in service of a ‘public transcript’ of Party-state legitimacy. However, oral histories of education in Japanese-occupied north-east China, collected by Chinese researchers and published in 2005, hint at more complex relations between story, storyteller and imagined audience. Without challenging established judgements on the occupation itself, these personal histories articulate more nuanced and ambivalent social histories of wartime schooling, suggesting that former students were neither passive victims of occupation nor passive consumers of state-sponsored historical narrative.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of History Workshop Journal. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jul 2019 14:50 |
Last Modified: | 22 Oct 2019 10:18 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1093/hwj/dbz031 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:148737 |