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Book SynopsisThis book explores entangled Easts to reconsider global history from the margins. Examining the politics of history and memory, Jie-Hyun Lim reveals the affinities linking Eastern Europe and East Asia.
Trade ReviewFew books have the range and ambition of
Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it. -- Andre Schmid, author of
Korea Between Empires, 1895-1919Jie-Hyun Lim is one of the most original and innovative historians of his generation, wonderfully knowledgeable across Western and East Asian history alike. The connections he draws linking the history of Poland and East-Central Europe with Korea and East Asia are always thought-provoking and provide fresh insights about being ‘on the margins.’ Anyone interested in questions of memory, modernity, democracy, and dictatorship in the global twentieth century will come away inspired from this important book. -- Stefan Berger, author of
History and Identity: How Historical Theory Shapes Historical PracticeWhile demonstrating that 'East' and 'West' are relational categories produced through the logic of historicism, Lim juxtaposes 'Global Easts' in Europe and Asia to produce a brilliant and effective cognitive remapping of global history and memory – in the process disrupting the facile binaries through which we imagine we know our world. A must read. -- Takashi Fujitani, author of
Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During World War IITheoretically sophisticated and empirically rich...this is a thought-provoking book that will be of interest to anyone
studying the role of history and memory in international relations. * International Affairs *
Readers will come away certainly stimulated. * Europe-Asia Studies *
This book will unsettle your framework and compel you to rethink and re-engage with questions that you might have satisfactorily set aside as completed projects. * Pacific Affairs *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Between Two Global Easts
Part I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability
2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space
3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and Colonialism
Part II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of
Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited
5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories
6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography
7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms
8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North Korea
Part III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship
10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” Nations
Epilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of Neopopulism
Index
