Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction: Writing History into Broken Narratives -- Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik -- part 1 -- Cinematic Contributions to Post-Cold War Historiography -- "Europe in the Mist": The Imaginary of European History in Lars von Trier's Europa and in Dancer in the Dark -- Peter Verstraten -- Hiroshima as a Personal and National Allegory: Revisiting Hiroshima mon amour and H Story -- Rotem Kowner -- The Individual and the War: Re-remembering the Sino-Japanese War in the TV series A Spring River Flows East -- Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik and Carsten Schäfer -- Chinese Cinema in the Post-Cold War Era and the Legacy of the Sino-Japanese War: Devils on the Doorstep and Purple Sunset -- Martin Gieselmann -- part 2 -- Post-Colonialist Contributions to Post-Cold War Historiography -- Rewriting the History of Colonialism in South Korea -- Yonson Ahn -- Colonialism and Modernity in Taiwan: Reflections on Contemporary Taiwanese Historiography -- Chang Lung-chih -- Staging Local History between Empires: Shandong Boxer Resistance as Maoqiang Opera -- Andrea Riemenschnitter -- part 3 -- Cold War Roots of Post-Cold War Historiography -- The "Third Road" Concept in 1956 Hungary -- Shingo Minamizuka -- Confessions of Japanese POWs after Re-education in China -- Petra Buchholz -- Concluding Remarks: The Geopolitics of Memory -- Tatiana Zhurzhenko -- Index.