Taiwan's Place in Northeast Asia's Memory Contests: Can Strategic Diplomacy Help?

Abstract

Since the end of the Second World War, relations between China and Japan and between the two Koreas and Japan have been fraught with disagreements over history and identity politics, so much so that the present and future often seem captive to differing perceptions of the past. Less well known is the complex debate in Taiwan over its "history problems" with Japan and Mainland China. Amy King argues that strategic diplomacy provides a powerful lens through which to analyze how Taiwanese elites have constructed historical memory to communicate, contest and negotiate their interests and goals. Show more