The Dilemma that Narrates Asia: Seeking an Intellectual Common Space   by SUN Ge June 2002, 128 x 188 mm, 240 pp., JPY2730 Since the 1990's a the chasm Japan's historical awareness has grown wider surrounding issues such as East Asia's growing economic integration, new history textbooks, assessment of the Nanjing atrocities, and official visits to Yasukuni Shrine by the Japanese government. Globalization has solidified and patterned the emotional memories of national groups, resulting in the irony of historical awareness itself having become political discourse. SUN Ge, specializes in Japanese/Chinese comparative literatures and cultures, and established some five years ago the intellectual forum "The Japan/China Intellectual Community" and holding multiple symposiums attended by Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Taiwanese and American scholars and journalists. With their main topic East Asia's historical problem, these reflective essays open a common Asian intellectual space through a process fraught with contradiction and the trial and error intellectual debates of colleagues in the field. Sun's essays are well regarded not only in Japan but China, Korea and Taiwan as well. Taiwan and Mainland China editions of this book are also anticipated. Contents 1. Asia as an intellectual space 2. The Sino-Japanese War — an outline of emotion and memory Identity-politics of the “AZUMA Shiro phenomenon” Moral responsibility for facing recent history Globalization and Cultural Difference — considering intellectual conditions beyond national frontiers 3. Rebirth in history already passed by   Lu Xun's discarded clothes Dusk of idealists The dilemma that narrates Asia Afterword About the Author Born in 1955 in Changchun, Jilin Province in China, SUN Ge graduated from the Department of Chinese literature at Jilin University and is currently a research member of the China Social Sciences Institute. Her other titles include Seeking Errors (Beijing, 1998), Research on Chinese Classical Opera Performed Overseas (co-authored with CHEN Yangu, Shanghai, 2000) and What does Asia mean?: [Japan] 's cultural space (Taipei, 2001)