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China’s Use of Hostile Memories of Japan and its Influencing Factors: Focusing on the Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese-Japanese War

Lee, Choong-Koo 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the strategic use of hostile memories of Japan by Chinese authorities. The emergence of memories of the past war with Japan through the Chinese official media may be regarded as an expression of domestic nationalism as a result of conflict with Japan, and it can also be assumed to have been caused by the domestic political process. I examine whether the expansion of articles covering two Sino-Japanese wars in the “People’s Daily” could be explained by external factors of Japan’s behaviors and internal factors of unique political processes in China. The result shows that when both factors are combined, the strategic use of hostile memory is significantly increased. This means that when both the political sensitivity to public opinion and nationalist public opinion are expanded, the hostile history issue against Japan is actively handled by Chinese authorities.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.