National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for
instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of …

This theory-building dissertation investigates how states' narratives about dark pasts are
shaped and contested over time, employing macro-historical analysis to trace the …

The dissertation studies the Chinese film censorship after the Cultural Revolution in 1976
and its impacts on Chinese cinema. I propose a new definition for censorship by arguing that …

The dissertation explores the relationship between identity and international security, and
tests the effect of the former on the latter by analyzing a set of puzzling phenomena in East …

The goal of the present dissertation is explaining what is behind the following phenomenon:
The Constitution of Japan has never been amended since its promulgation in the aftermath …

The anti-imperial uprisings, the warlord power struggle, the War of Resistance, and the
Chinese Civil War took twenty to thirty million lives. Half of the casualties were civilian …

In recent decades, anti-Japanese nationalism has grown into an important feature of
Chinese popular discourse and at times caused serious strains in bilateral official relations …

This dissertation is a history of commemoration of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima in the
context of the global development of Holocaust and WW II memory. Using the history of the …