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This peer-reviewed interdisciplinary handbook illuminates how memories of war, colonialism, displacement, authoritarianism, and environmental crisis shape contemporary East Asia. Bringing together international scholars from across memory studies, history, anthropology, art history, media studies, literature studies, and related fields, memory is discussed as a contested political, cultural, and transnational process.
Subjects explored include activism, gender, urban space, Indigenous memory, visual culture, heritage politics, and environmental change. In these areas the handbook engages with key debates on multidirectional memory, victimhood nationalism, and global memory cultures. Mapping both established and emerging directions in the field, we offer an important reference work for scholars and students of memory studies, Asian studies, cultural studies, and related disciplines.
Price: $162.00
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill’s Handbook Series in Memory Studies
Publication Date:
07 January 2027
ISBN: 9789004534780
Format: Hardcover
Nayun Jang (Ph.D., Courtauld Institute of Art, 2019) is Research Assistant Professor at the Critical Global Studies Institute, Sogang University, Seoul, Korea. She is an art historian specializing in contemporary lens-based practices in East Asia. Her research examines collective memory, counter-memory, and the politics of visual representation. She has contributed critical essays and texts for artist books and exhibitions, and has participated in various curatorial and interdisciplinary research projects as a researcher and critic.
Edward Boyle (Ph.D., Hokkaido University, 2018), is an associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, and the editor of Japan Review. Recent publications include Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire (Bloomsbury 2024) and Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in East Asia (Brill 2023), both with Steven Ivings.
Shu-Mei Huang is Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning and Director of Indigenous Students Resource Center, National Taiwan University. Her research area intersects Heritage Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Memory Studies in East Asia.
Laura Pozzi (Ph.D., European University Institute, 2014) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Her research examines the entanglements between global history and memory politics in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with a focus on museums and heritage. She is leading the research project ‘China’s Multiple Pasts: Museums, Colonial History, and Decoloniality in Southeast Asia.’
Desmond Hok-Man Sham (Ph.D., Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015) is currently an Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Nottingham. He is a cultural studies scholar specialising in postcolonial studies and the politics and potential of cultural heritage and cultural and creative practices, with a focus in East and Southeast Asia and the Sinophone world.
Edward Boyle (Ph.D., Hokkaido University, 2018), is an associate professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto, and the editor of Japan Review. Recent publications include Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire (Bloomsbury 2024) and Heritage, Contested Sites, and Borders of Memory in East Asia (Brill 2023), both with Steven Ivings.
Shu-Mei Huang is Professor at the Graduate Institute of Building and Planning and Director of Indigenous Students Resource Center, National Taiwan University. Her research area intersects Heritage Studies, Indigenous Studies, and Memory Studies in East Asia.
Laura Pozzi (Ph.D., European University Institute, 2014) is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Warsaw. Her research examines the entanglements between global history and memory politics in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), with a focus on museums and heritage. She is leading the research project ‘China’s Multiple Pasts: Museums, Colonial History, and Decoloniality in Southeast Asia.’
Desmond Hok-Man Sham (Ph.D., Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015) is currently an Assistant Professor in Cultural and Creative Industries at the University of Nottingham. He is a cultural studies scholar specialising in postcolonial studies and the politics and potential of cultural heritage and cultural and creative practices, with a focus in East and Southeast Asia and the Sinophone world.