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DESCRIPTION:Since the late twentieth century\, the memory of war crimes has
  become increasingly globalized. Commemorative practices easily travel acr
 oss borders\, as those originally developed in one context are adopted and
  adapted elsewhere (for example the way Holocaust memory has shaped the me
 morialization of other atrocities). At the same time\, the memory of war c
 rimes has often reinforced national narratives or been instrumentalized fo
 r the nation. In my paper\, I intend to investigate this tension between t
 he global and the national in war-crimes memory through a reading of Ken L
 iu’s The Man Who Ended History (2011)\, a novella in which time travel a
 llows for the historical exploration of the atrocities committed by Japan
 ’s Unit 731 during the Second World War. Liu’s story is far from the o
 nly work of speculative fiction to engage with historical trauma\, but it 
 stands out for its exploration\, from a diasporic Chinese-American perspec
 tive\, of the historian’s role and identity within the politics of remem
 brance.
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LOCATION:Room 403 PC Desk (Seats 30)
SUMMARY:Who Owns the Past? Global vs. National Memory in Ken Liu’s The Ma
 n Who Ended History - Sungshin Kim
URL:https://pretalx.com/wha-annual-meeting-korea-2026/talk/XGTMHU/
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