Friday, December 16, 2016

von Lingen: War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956

Kerstin von Lingen (Heidelberg Univ.) has published War Crimes Trials in the Wake of Decolonization and Cold War in Asia, 1945-1956: Justice in Time of Turmoil (Palgrave Macmillan 2016). Contents include:
  • Kerstin Lingen & Robert Cribb, Justice in Time of Turmoil: War Crimes Trials in Asia in the Context of Decolonization and Cold War
  • Neil Boister, Colonialism, Anti-Colonialism and Neo-Colonialism in China: The Opium Question at the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
  • Beatrice Trefalt, The French Prosecution at the IMTFE: Robert Oneto, Indochina and the Rehabilitation of French Prestige
  • Milinda Banerjee, Decolonization and Subaltern Sovereignty: India and the Tokyo Trial
  • Anja Bihler, The Legacy of Extraterritoriality and the Trial of Japanese War Criminals in the Republic of China
  • Robert Cribb, The Burma Trials of Japanese War Criminals, 1946–1947
  • Wolfgang Form, Colonization and Postcolonial Justice: US and Philippine War Crimes Trials in Manila After the Second World War
  • Ann-Sophie Schoepfel, Justice and Decolonization: War Crimes on Trial in Saigon, 1946–1950
  • Lisette Schouten, Netherlands East Indies’ War Crimes Trials in the Face of Decolonization
  • Dean Aszkielowicz, Australia’s Pursuit of the Taiwanese and Korean ‘Japanese’ War Criminals
  • Valentyna Polunina, From Tokyo to Khabarovsk: Soviet War Crimes Trials in Asia as Cold War Battlefields
  • Adam Cathcart, Resurrecting Defeat: International Propaganda and the Shenyang Trials of 1956