'난징대학살' 문제를 둘러싼 기억의 정치와 국제정치학적 딜레마

The Politics of Memory has been primarily used in critical analysis of Imagined Community within a nation or ethnicity. However, it is imperative to examine how it affects other nations while concurrently examining how it is remembered or forgotten within, as in case of Nanjing Massacre, which is still a controversial issue between China and Japan. regional cooperation in Northeast Asia is being highlighted recently, and a people, united under Common memory, not only act as consumers with a certain national identity, but also play a pivotal role in international competition and cooperation as the aggressive actor from bottom. This is the reason why one can never overlook dynamic mutual relations, the Politics of Memory and the accompanying international dilemma. This paper first observes how Politics of Memory of Nanjing Massacre unfolded in China and Japan respectively and how it affected their mutual relations. Then it further analyzes its unfolding process in the light of national planning and reproduction, as well as the dual structure of projection intoand a feedback by the private sector, which is inherently and ironically part of The Politics of Memory and poses challenges as international dilemma.