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Debating Collaboration and Complicity in War Crimes Trials in Asia, 1945-1956
Kirstin Von Lingen (Ed.)
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Hardback. Editor(s): Lingen, Kerstin Von. Series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence. Num Pages: 167 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; JWXK; LNFX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan's contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where did the balance of responsibility ... Read more
This innovative volume examines the nexus between war crimes trials and the pursuit of collaborators in post-war Asia. Global standards of behaviour in time of war underpinned the prosecution of Japanese military personnel in Allied courts in Asia and the Pacific. Japan's contradictory roles in the Second World War as brutal oppressor of conquered regions in Asia and as liberator of Asia from both Western colonialism and stultifying tradition set the stage for a tangled legal and political debate: just where did colonized and oppressed peoples owe their loyalties in time of war? And where did the balance of responsibility ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
185
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319531403
SKU
V9783319531403
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About Kirstin Von Lingen (Ed.)
Kerstin von Lingen is Researcher and Lecturer at Heidelberg University, Germany, in the `Asia and Europe in a Global Context' Cluster of Excellence. Since 2013, she has led an independent research group, `Transcultural Justice: Legal Flows and the Emergence of International Justice within the East Asian War Crimes Trials, 1945-1954'. She is the 2016 laureate of the International Chair for ... Read more
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