Overview
- Explores the contradictory intentions embodied in bringing perpetrators to justice
- Offers a fresh perspective on justice in Asia
- Draws attention to the Asian dimension in the history in international humanitarian law
Part of the book series: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence (WHCCV)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Reviews
“Fills a major gap in our knowledge about the complex post-War accountability processes in Asia and the Pacific after the end of the Second World War ... . Just as the Tokyo trial remains in the shadow of Nuremberg, the second tier trials in the Far East have never had the recognition they deserve. ... However, the vision underpinning this goes beyond neglected histories. The central issue probed by the contributors is the relationship between these trials and emergent nationalism leading to the crumbling of colonial empires. … providing us an important, fascinating and still-relevant window into the handling of the past in Asia and the Pacific.” (Suzannah Linton, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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 the History of the Second World War, awarded by the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956
Book Subtitle: Justice in Time of Turmoil
Editors: Kerstin von Lingen
Series Title: World Histories of Crime, Culture and Violence
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42987-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82710-0Published: 11 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42987-8Published: 04 November 2016
Series ISSN: 2730-9630
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9649
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 290
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: Asian History, Legal History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Crime and Society, International Criminal Law