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Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

This book examines representations of the Second World War in postwar Chinese and Japanese cinema. By drawing on a wide range of scholarly disciplines and analyzing an extensive film repertoire it demonstrates the potential of war movies for understanding contemporary China and Japan. It shows how the war is remembered in both countries, including the demonization of Japanese soldiers in postwar socialist-era Chinese movies, and the pervasive sense of victimhood in Japanese memories of the war. However, it also shows that some Chinese directors were experimenting with alternative interpretations of the war as early as the 1950s and that, despite the resurgence of nationalism in Japan since the 1980s, the production of Japanese movies that are critical of the war has continued.

King-fai Tam is Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.

Timothy Y. Tsu is a Professor in the School of International Studies at Kwansei Gaukuin University, Japan.

Sandra Wilson is a Professor in the School of Arts and a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia.

Chinese and Japanese Films on the Second World War

Edited by

King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson

First published 2015

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Chinese and Japanese films on the Second World War / edited by King-fai Tam, Timothy Y. Tsu and Sandra Wilson.

pages cm (Media, culture, and social change in Asia series; 38)

1. World War, 19391945Motion pictures and the war. 2. Motion picturesChinaHistory20th century. 3. Motion pictures JapanHistory20th century. 4. Motion picturesPolitical aspectsChina History20th century. 5. Motion picturesPolitical aspectsJapanHistory 20th century. I. Tam, King-fai, editor. II. Tsu, Timothy Y. editor. III. Wilson, Sandra, 1957 editor.

D743.23.C48 2014

791.43'6584053dc23

2014017020

ISBN: 978-1-138-79103-9 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-315-76316-3 (ebk)

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TIMOTHY Y. TSU, SANDRA WILSON, AND KING-FAI TAM

TIMOTHY Y. TSU

HAN YANLI

PAOLA VOCI

KRISTOF VAN DEN TROOST

KING-FAI TAM

SIU LEUNG LI

DICK STEGEWERNS

HIROSHI KITAMURA

HARALD SALOMON

CHRISTOPHER AMES

BENG CHOO LIM

MARCO DEL BENE

Christopher Ames is an Associate Professor in the School of Undergraduate Studies at the University of Maryland University College in Japan. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan and specializes in research on the impact of overseas US military bases on host communities and local culture.

Marco Del Bene is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Sapienza University in Rome. He has published various essays, mostly in Italian, on Japanese modern and contemporary history, focusing on the influence and role of Japans media in relation to various ideological, political and social issues.

Han Yanli has a doctoral degree from Kyoto University, and teaches in the School of Economics at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. Her speciality is Chinese film, on which she has published extensively in Japanese and Chinese.

Hiroshi Kitamura is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the College of William and Mary, Virginia, USA. He is the author of Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction of Defeated Japan (Cornell University Press, 2010).

Siu Leung Li is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong, China. He is currently compiling the Hong Kong volumes of Annals of Chinese Opera and Anthology of Chinese Opera Music (part of the Chinese Folk and Ethnic Culture and Arts Collections project under the Ministry of Culture, PRC).

Beng Choo Lim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore. Her two main areas of research are medieval Japanese theatre and culture, and modern Japanese cinema, especially comedy. Her book, Another Stage: Kanze Nobumitsu and the Late Medieval Noh Theater, was published in 2013 by Cornell East Asian Series.

Harald Salomon is the Director of the Mori gai Memorial Center in Berlin. His research interests include modern Japanese history, as well as Japanese film and media culture. He is the author of Views of the Dark Valley: Japanese Cinema and the Culture of Nationalism, 193745 (Harrassowitz, 2011).

Dick Stegewerns is an Associate Professor in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo, Norway, and Visiting Professor at Kyoto University, Japan. His current research focuses on post-1945 Japanese war films. His doctoral thesis, A to the New World: Japanese Opinion Leaders of the Taish Generatidjustingon and the Outside World (2007), will be published in Japanese in 2015 by the University of Tokyo Press. He is the editor of Nationalism and Internationalism in Imperial Japan (2003) and Yoshida Kij: 50 Years of Avant-Garde Filmmaking in Postwar Japan (2010).

King-fai Tam is an Associate Professor in the Department of Chinese Culture at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China. He is currently researching stand-up comedy in Hong Kong and, building on his chapter in this volume, will embark on new research on the remembrance of the Second World War in the popular culture of Hong Kong in the 1950s.

Timothy Y. Tsu is a Professor in the School of International Studies at Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan. He researches JapanChina social and cultural relations, Chinese immigration into Japan, Japanese immigration into colonial Southeast Asia, and Japanese and Chinese foodways. He also teaches part-time at Osaka University and Kyoto University.

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