The Sociology of the “Manchuria” …

The Sociology of the “Manchuria” Experience: Forms of Colonial Memory
Shoko Sakabe

186 mm x 130 mm
270 pages
JPY 2,300
ISBN 9784790713203
Pub date: March 2008

Using the colonial experience of “Manchukuo” as a subject, this book attempt to reconstruct the world of life of the colonizers (Japanese) and the colonized (Chinese) through their multilayered narratives. This is an ethnography of memory of people who lived on the frozen land at the mercy of history. 

Points of Appeal
1) Daily life in the colony emerges from memoirs and interviews
2) Investigating the collective memory of colonized Northeast China
3) Winner of the 17th Mineo Hashimoto Award

Table of Contents
Introduction Colonialism and memory

Chapter 1: The missing rhetoric of domination

Chapter 2: Nostalgia for a lost homeland

Chapter 3: The comemoration of memorials

Chapter 4: Resistance and the commemoration of memory of damage

Chapter 5: Listening practices of memory of damage

Chapter 6: Personal narratives of memory

End: Through polyvocal memory

Chronology of “Manchukuo”　
References / Afterword / Index

Author Information
Shoko Sakabe
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities, Nagoya University. Retired from Kyoto University, Graduate School of Letters with Research Supervision Certificate. Ph.D. (Literature). Specialised in sociology and Chinese area studies.