Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma: Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979

Palgrave Macmillan Memory Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-128

  Xu, Xiaohong ^a   Spillman, Lyn ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

American Imperialism; China Study; Collective Memory; Japanese People; Japanese Soldier

Indexed keywords

EID: 85145207086     PISSN: 26346257     EISSN: 26346265     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230277427_5     Document Type: Chapter

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