![]() ![]() At the same time, part of Japanese society continues to play down or flat-out deny the atrocities committed. Particularly relevant in this context is that in the pre-1976 political landscape, Chinese victimhood was not at the centre of attention only in recent years has there seemed to be burgeoning consideration for the victims inside China. They analysed how these sites relate to the past, to each other, to internal Chinese developments, and to foreign politics. The Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences (IAS), the Institute for Peace Studies at Nanjing University, and the NIOD Institute for War- Holocaust- and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam, organized this Summer School in Nanjing, which took place from 16 to 23 July 2017.ĭuring the Summer School the participants – most of them students of peace studies or war studies – explored and discussed memory practices at historical sites of mass violence in Nanjing, it being a city where one of the major catastrophes of the Asia-Pacific War took place. ![]() At least, that is the conclusion of an international group of participants of the Summer School ‘Practices of Remembrance beyond Memory Politics: Recalling Mass Violence and the Roads to Reconciliation in Asia and Europe’, founded by the China Exchange Programme of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences(KNAW). This increasing institutionalization does not automatically lead to an overall improved atmosphere for reconciliation. New museums (both state-supported and private) have been established, old museums have undergone thorough restructuring, and memorial sites have been increasingly institutionalized. In recent years there has been, for example, an increasing attention to the violent past this is clearly visible in the public domain in the city. Yet, over the decades the memory-landscape of Nanjing has undergone considerable changes. This period of extreme violence – also known as the rape of Nanjing – has left its mark on the city unto the present day. ![]() On 14 December 1937, the Japanese military captured Nanjing – then capital of the Republic of China – and the subsequent six-week long period of killing, raping and looting left a trail of devastation and destruction across the city. ![]()
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