TY - BOOK ID - 136481006 TI - Frontiers of memory in the Asia-Pacific : difficult heritage and the transnational politics of postcolonial nationalism AU - Huang, Shu-Mei AU - Lee, Hyun Kyung AU - Vickers, Edward PY - 2023 SN - 9888754939 9789888754939 PB - Hong Kong : HKU Press, DB - UniCat KW - Collective memory KW - Imperialism KW - History. KW - Asia KW - East Asia KW - Pacific Area KW - Politics and government. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136481006 AB - Explores the making and consumption of conflict-related heritage throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Contributing to a growing literature on 'difficult heritage', this collection advances our understanding of how places of pain, shame, oppression, and trauma have been appropriated and refashioned as 'heritage' in a number of societies in contemporary East and Southeast Asia and Oceania. The authors analyse how the repackaging of difficult pasts as heritage can serve either to reinforce borders, transcend them, or even achieve both simultaneously, depending on the political agendas that inform the heritage-making process. They also examine the ways in which these processes respond to colonialism, decolonization, and nationalism. ER -