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      Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia book

      Edited ByKevin Blackburn, Karl Hack
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2007
      eBook Published 14 December 2007
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203934746
      Pages 328
      eBook ISBN 9780203934746
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities
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      Blackburn, K., & Hack, K. (Eds.). (2007). Forgotten Captives in Japanese-Occupied Asia (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203934746

      ABSTRACT

      Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some camps had death rates below 1 per cent, others of over 20 per cent. While POWs were deployed far and wide as a captive labour force, civilian internees were generally detained locally.

      This book explores differences in how captivity was experienced between 1941 and 1945, and has been remembered since: differences due to geography and logistics, to policies and personalities, and marked by nationality, age, class, gender and combatant status. Part One has at least one chapter for each ‘National Memory’, Australian, British, Canadian, Dutch, Indian and American. Part Two moves on to forgotten captivities. It covers women, children, camp guards, internee experiences upon the end of the war, and local heroines who fought back.

      By juxtaposing such a wide variety of captivity experiences – differentiated both by category of captive and by approach - this book transcends place, to become a collection about captivity as a category. It will interest scholars working on the Asia-Pacific War, on captivities in general, and on the individual histories of the countries and groups covered.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|20 pages

      Japanese-occupied Asia from 1941 to 1945: One occupier, many captivities and memories

      ByKARL HACK, KEVIN BLACKBURN

      part |2 pages

      Part I: National memories

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Beyond slogans: Assessing the experiences and the history of the Australian prisoners of war of the Japanese

      ByHANK NELSON

      chapter 3|16 pages

      Monument and ceremony: The Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial and the Anzac legend

      ByLACHLAN GRANT

      chapter 4|16 pages

      Memory and the prisoner of war experience: The United Kingdom

      ByKingdom SIBYLLA JANE FLOWER

      chapter 5|21 pages

      Indian POWs in the Pacific, 1941–45 G . J . DOUDS

      chapter 6|17 pages

      Dutch memories of captivity in the Pacific War R E

      chapter 7|14 pages

      In the eye of a hurricane: Americans in Japanese custody during World War II

      ByP . SCOTT CORBETT

      chapter 8|20 pages

      The Canadian experience of the Pacific War: Betrayal and forgotten captivity GREGORY A . JOHNSON

      part |2 pages

      Part II: Forgotten captivities

      chapter 9|25 pages

      The Bridge on the River Kwai and King Rat: Protest and ex-prisoner of war memory in Britain and Australia

      ByKARL HACK, KEVIN BLACKBURN

      chapter 10|21 pages

      Japanese guards in film and memory: White Skin, Yellow Commander

      ByKAORI MAEKAWA

      chapter 11|17 pages

      Crime and authority within Dutch communities of internees in Indonesia, 1942–45

      ByJACCO VAN DEN HEUVEL

      chapter 12|14 pages

      Remembering war and forgetting civilians: The place of civilian internees in Australian commemorations of the Pacific War

      ByCHRISTINA TWOMEY

      chapter 13|19 pages

      Internee voices: Women and children’s experience of being Japanese captives

      ByBERNICE ARCHER

      chapter 14|17 pages

      Unlikely heroines: Sybil Kathigasu and Elizabeth Choy

      ByP . LIM PUI HUEN

      chapter 15|18 pages

      ‘Hide and seek’: Children of Japanese–Indisch parents

      ByEVELINE BUCHHEIM

      chapter 16|25 pages

      The Dutch community in Thailand, 1945–46

      ByARNO OOMS
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