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HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE NATIONS OF NORTH EAST ASIA
Abstract
Historical memory has a lot of influence on the relationship between states and people of North East Asia (NEA). North East Asia is a complicated region where interests of leading world countries are concentrated. Economic and cultural rise of NEA is accompanied by the rise of national identity and nationalism in region's states. Those also based on the historical memory. Peoples in the region experience different historical memory. Collective memory is understood as a representation of the past shared by a group or community, there are communicative memory and cultural memory. Communicative memory is generally oral and is often short-lived, perhaps lasting for one generation. In contrast, cultural memory refers to the texts, ceremonies, images, architectures, and monuments designed to memorialize important events. In the paper the author has being trying to show historical memory in NEA in all those spheres, in mass activity, in textbooks, ceremonies, monuments, etc. Especially the paper pays attention to the anti-Japan movement in China and its influence to the regional situation. So, “overcoming the past” and promotion of uniting potential in spiritual life are the main components of the relationship between states and people of the region.
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