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1 online resource (301 pages) |
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Front Cover; Designing History in East Asian Textbooks; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Gotelind Müller; Part I: Contesting East Asia, identities and education: historical contingencies; 1. The predicament of compiling textbooks on the history of East Asia: Sun Ge; 2. Teaching 'the others' history' in Chinese schools: the state, cultural asymmetries and shifting images of Europe (from 1900 to today): Gotelind Müller; 3. The construction of 'self ' and Western and Asian 'others' in contemporary Japanese civics and ethics textbooks: Klaus Vollmer |
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4. Learning to love the motherland: 'National Education' in post-retrocession Hong Kong: Edward Vickers5. Telling histories of an island nation: the academics and politics of history textbooks in contemporary Taiwan: Lung-Chih Chang; Part II: History writing in school textbooks: practical considerations; 6. New curriculum reform and history textbook compilationin contemporary China: Li Fan; 7. The 'others' in Chinese history textbooks: a focus on the relationship between China and Japan: Su Zhiliang; 8. Rewriting history in a textbook in contemporary Japan: Miyake Akimasa |
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Part III: Self-assertion, revisionism and historical reconciliation: conflicts and perspectives9. The 'Tokyo Trial view of history' and its revision in contemporary Japan/East Asia: Steffi Richter; 10. Historical conflict and dialogue between Korea and Japan: a focus on Japanese history textbooks: Chung Jae-Jeong; 11. Historical reconciliation between Germany and Poland as seen from a Japanese perspective: the thoughts of a Japanese historian and their development: Kawate Keiichi; 12. Mediating textbook conflicts: Falk Pingel; Concluding remarks: Gotelind Müller; Index |
| Summary |
This book analyses the efforts throughout East Asia to deploy education for purposes of political socialization, and in particular in order to shape notions of identity. The chapters also examine the trend of 'common textbook initiatives', which have recently emerged in East Asia with the aim of helping to defuse tensions arguably fuelled by existing practices of mutual (mis)representation. These are analysed in relation to the East Asian political context, and compared with previous and ongoing endeavours in other parts of the world, particularly Europe, which have been keenly observed by Eas |
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Print version record |
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Education and state -- East Asia
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Education and state -- China
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Education and state -- Japan
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Education and state -- Taiwan
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Education and state -- Korea (South)
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Education and state
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Education
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East Asia -- History -- Textbooks
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East Asia -- History -- Study and teaching -- China
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East Asia -- History -- Study and teaching -- Japan
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East Asia -- History -- Study and teaching -- Taiwan
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East Asia -- History -- Study and teaching -- Korea (South)
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China
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East Asia
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Japan
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Korea (South)
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Taiwan
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Textbooks
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136826924 |
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1136826920 |
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