[KS] Official end of WWII in Asia
Frank Hoffmann
hoffmann at koreaweb.ws
Mon Sep 6 17:12:42 EDT 2010
Just a brief note to Jim's below quoted remarks:
>(...) This is because, over the years, numerous
>Chinese colleagues have remarked positively on
>the bravery of Korean risistance fighters and
>their willingness to die for the cause (of
>independence, liberation, freedom, etc.), which
>make them and other Chinese envious of the
>Korean resistance movement and the nationalist
>cause. So even if Korea did not "win its
>independence" on its own, it did mount a
>resistance and does have a pantheon of heroes
>who did resist and have now been canonised in
>the ROK and the DPRK--in a way that perhaps
>early resistance (ie 1931-1945) Chinese figures
>have not been canonized. It seems that this sets
>Korea and China apart--at least among Koreans
>and Chinese. (...)
The PRC has, just like the ROK, also published
biographical lexica (or lexica-like publications)
on Chinese anti-Japanese fighters in China and
its three North Eastern provinces--at least since
the mid-1980s. I am only aware of these as many
of those volumes also include Korean-Chinese and
Korean independence activists (usually marked
with their ethnic affiliation). But for obvious
reasons--Communist historiography--in all the
histories of the anti-Japanese (anti-Imperialist)
movements the focus is never on the individual
but on the Party and/or military unit or group.
Best,
Frank
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Frank Hoffmann
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