Introduction: engaging with war memory and the legacies of East Asian conflicts, 1930-1945

This interdisciplinary volume brings together new scholarship from the fields of History, Museums and Heritage Studies, Cultural Studies, and Anthropology to offer a unique exploration of transnational war memory formation. With a focus on how grassroots communities and everyday viewers and audiences engage with war memory, the volume offers a cross-cultural account of how war memory is shaped by practical and contextual factors, which in turn inform the formation of future memories.