Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples

by Kirsten L. Ziomek

Book Overview

A grandson's photo album. Old postcards. English porcelain. A granite headstone. These are just a few of the material objects that help reconstruct the histories of colonial people who lived during Japan's empire. These objects, along with oral histories and visual imagery, reveal aspects of lives that reliance on the colonial archive alone cannot. They help answer the primary question of Lost Histories Is it possible to write the history...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674237285
• ISBN13: 9780674237285
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 426 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"