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‘Japanese Consulate General in Jian Island Exhibition Hall’, Memory and Commemoration

  • Journal of Manchurian Studies
  • Abbr : 만주연구
  • 2017, (23), pp.165~200
  • DOI : 10.22888/mcsa..23.201706.165
  • Publisher : The Manchurian Studies Association
  • Research Area : Social Science > Area Studies > East Asia > China
  • Received : April 29, 2017
  • Accepted : June 16, 2017

Choi Hyereen 1

1延邊科學技術大學校

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ABSTRACT

This dissertation focuses on the experiences of Japanese imperialism aggressions are in Northeast China with a focus memory and identity as social constructs. Memory is selectively fabricated and imprinted according to social context. This study focuses on ‘Japanese Consulate General in Jian Island Exhibition Hall’, which opened in October 2015, as a case study for examining three aspects of such experiences. It explores, first, the political, as embedded within patriotic education and reinforced nationalist ideology. Second, it looks at the economic with the opening of the high-speed railroad, and the development of the tourist industry as seen through ‘One Belt, One Road’ projects. And third, it considers the experiences of the local community in Korean-Chinese autonomous prefecture. In other words, it investigates the sense of ‘pain’ exhibited and felt within this ethnic group, how it is magnified, and how the sharing of ‘memory’ during times of adversity aid in the “coming to terms” or reconciliation processes that ethnic communities experience that is necessary for the maintenance of a homogenous ‘Chinese’ national ethnic identity.

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