Contested Memories in Chinese and Japanese Foreign Policy explores the issue of memory and lack of reconciliation in East Asia.
As main East Asian nations have never achieved a common memory of their pasts, in particular, the events of the Second World War and Sino-Japanese War, this book locates the issue of memory within International Relations theory, exploring the theoretical and practical link between the construction of a country’s identity and the formation and contestation of its historical memory and foreign policy.

• Provides an innovative theoretical framework
• Draws connections between the role of memory and foreign policy
• Uses the interpretative theory of international relations
• Gives comparative perspective using the cases of China and Japan
• Presents in-depth analysis of the construction and contestation of national memory in China and Japan