After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

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The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous contribution to this book provided by Sally Lilienthal as a member of the Literati Circle of the University of California Press Foundation. After the Massacre ASIA: LOCAL STUDIES/GLOBAL THEMES Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kären Wigen, and Hue-Tam Ho Tai, Editors 1. Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife, by Robin M. LeBlanc 2. The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography, edited by Joshua A. Fogel 3. The Country of Memory: Remaking the Past in Late Socialist Vietnam, by Hue-Tam Ho Tai 4. Chinese Femininities/Chinese Masculinities: A Reader, edited by Susan Brownell and Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom 5. Chinese Visions of Family and State, 1915–1953, by Susan L. Glosser 6. An Artistic Exile: A Life of Feng Zikai (1898–1975), by Geremie R. Barmé 7. Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period, 1603–1868, by Marcia Yonemoto 8. Republican Beijing: The City and Its Histories, by Madeleine Yue Dong 9. Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China, by Ruth Rogaski 10. Marrow of the Nation: A History of Sport and Physical Culture in Republican China, by Andrew D. Morris 11. Vicarious Language: Gender and Linguistic Modernity in Japan, by Miyako Inoue 12. Japan in Print: Information and Nation in the Early Modern Period, by Mary Elizabeth Berry 13. Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination, by Anne Allison 14. After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai, by Heonik Kwon After the Massacre Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai Heonik Kwon With a Foreword by Drew Faust UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS Berkeley . Los Angeles . London University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England© 2006 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kwon, Heonik, 1962– After the massacre : commemoration and consolation in Ha My and My Lai / Heonik Kwon ; with a foreword by Drew Faust. p. cm. — (Asia—local studies/global themes ; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn-13: 978-0-520-24796-3 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-520-24796-5 (cloth : alk. paper) isbn-13: 978-0-520-24797-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) isbn-10: 0-520-24797-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968. 2. My Lai 4 (Vietnam)—Historiography. 3. Vietnamese Conflict, 1961–1975—Atrocities. I. Title. II. Series. ds557.8.m9k96 2006 959.704'342—dc22 2005037445 Manufactured in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is printed on New Leaf EcoBook 50, a 100% recycled fiber of which 50% is de-inked post-consumer waste, processed chlorine-free. EcoBook 50 is acid-free and meets the minimum requirements of ansi/astm d5634–01 (Permanence of Paper). ...