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9780415948081

History Education And National Identity In East Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415948081

  • ISBN10:

    0415948088

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2005-06-05
  • Publisher: RoutledgeFalmer

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Summary

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies. It examines history curriculum development across the entire East Asian region, analyzing changing official visions of the past in the context of political transformations such as those associated with the rise of communism, decolonization, and the Cold War divisions of China and Korea.

Table of Contents

Series Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction History, Nationalism, and the Politics of Memory 1(30)
Edward Vickers
Shared Legacies, Diverse Evolutions: History, Education, and the State in East Asia
31(34)
Alisa Jones
Changing the Past to Serve the Present: History Education in Mainland China
65(36)
Alisa Jones
Identity Issues in Taiwan's History Curriculum
101(32)
Mei-Hui Liu
Li-Ching
Hung
Edward Vickers
History Textbooks, Identity Politics, and Ethnic Introspection in Taiwan: The June 1997 Knowing Taiwan Textbooks Controversy and the Questions It Raised on the Various Approaches to ``Han'' Identity
133(38)
Stephane Corcuff
The Re-education of Hong Kong: Identity, Politics, and History Education in Colonial and Postcolonial Hong Kong
171(32)
Edward Vickers
Flora Kan
History Education and the Construction of National Identity in Singapore, 1945--2000
203(24)
Goh Chor Boon
Saravanan Gopinathan
The History Text: Framing Ethno-Cultural and Civic Nationalism in the Divided Koreas
227(28)
Chris Wilson
Danton Ford
Alisa Jones
The Stability of Postwar Japanese History Education amid Global Changes
255(20)
Julian Dierkes
Japanese Politics and the History Textbook Controversy, 1945--2001
275(32)
Yoshiko Nozaki
Learning to Live with the Imperial Past? History Teaching, Empire, and War in Japan and England
307(28)
Peter Cave
Contributors 335(4)
Index 339

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