Writing History in America’s Shadow: Japan, the Philippines, and the Question of Pan-Asianism (Volume 20) (Kyoto CSEAS Series on Asian Studies) - Softcover

Serizawa, Takamichi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9813251069 ISBN 13: 9789813251069

Publisher: National University of Singapore Press, 2020

Synopsis

Both the Japanese and Filipino people experienced a rewriting of their national histories upon being defeated by the United States: the Philippines after 1902 and Japan after 1945. The new histories served to justify and explain US rule and its ideology of modernization and democracy. They also portrayed the immediate past as the dark ages, especially the Philippines’ Spanish colonial period and Japan’s wartime totalitarianism and militarism.

Writing History in America’s Shadow sheds light on areas of darkness in both Japanese and Philippine historiographies and understanding of their region. It considers the questions: What kind of dilemmas and contradictions did Filipino and Japanese historians embrace by accepting the US rewriting of their national stories? And did Filipino and Japanese historians interact at all, under the US hegemony? Through an examination of the commonalities, differences and interactions of Japanese and Filipino histories, ideas of history, modernization theory, and area studies, Takamichi Serizawa makes an important contribution to sorting through the tangled histories of Asia in the complicated matrix of colonial, wartime, and Cold War contexts.

About this title

About the Author

Takamichi Serizawa is assistant professor of international studies at De LaSalle University in the Philippines.

Edition details

• Publisher: National University of Singapore Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9813251069
• ISBN 13: 9789813251069
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216