Jie-Hyun Lim is professor of transnational history and director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is coeditor of Mnemonic Solidarity: Global Interventions (2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (2016), and Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011), among other works. He is also the author of several books in Korean.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Global EastsPart I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and ColonialismPart II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North KoreaPart III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” NationsEpilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of NeopopulismIndex

Few books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it.

Jie-Hyun Lim is professor of transnational history and director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is coeditor of Mnemonic Solidarity: Global Interventions (2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (2016), and Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011), among other works. He is also the author of several books in Korean.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Global EastsPart I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and ColonialismPart II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North KoreaPart III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” NationsEpilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of NeopopulismIndex

Few books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it.

Jie-Hyun Lim is professor of transnational history and director of the Critical Global Studies Institute at Sogang University. He is coeditor of Mnemonic Solidarity: Global Interventions (2021), The Palgrave Handbook of Mass Dictatorship (2016), and Gender Politics and Mass Dictatorship: Global Perspectives (2011), among other works. He is also the author of several books in Korean.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Between Two Global EastsPart I. Remembering1. Victimhood Nationalism: National Mourning and Global Accountability2. The Second World War in Global Memory Space3. Postcolonial Reflections on the Mnemonic Confluence of the Holocaust, Stalinist Crimes, and ColonialismPart II. Imagining4. A Postcolonial Reading of Sonderwege: Marxist Historicism Revisited5. Imagining Easts: Cofiguration of Orient and Occident in the Global Chain of National Histories6 World History as a Nationalist Rationale: How the National Appropriated the Transnational in East Asian Historiography7. Nationalist Phenomenology in East Asian History Textbook: On the Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms8. Nationalist Messages in Socialist Code: On the Party Historiography in People’s Poland and North KoreaPart III. Mobilizing9. Mapping Mass Dictatorship: Toward a Transnational History of Twentieth-Century Dictatorship10. Nationalizing the Bolshevik Revolution Transnationally: In Search of Non-Western Modernization Among “Proletarian” NationsEpilogue: Blurring Dichotomy of Global Easts and Wests in the Age of NeopopulismIndex

Few books have the range and ambition of Global Easts. Lim offers wide-roaming essays written from original spaces to make surprising connections. He finds links between Polish and Korean history, brings comfort women trials in Batavia into conversation with community activists in California, and connects Anne Frank’s reception in Japan to Australian indigenous politics—to name just a few. This is a bold collection of essays. We need more works like it.