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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814001303321

Titolo

History textbooks and the wars in Asia : divided memories / / edited by Gi-Wook Shin and Daniel C. Sneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-83090-1

1-283-36373-9

9786613363732

0-203-83166-7

1-136-83091-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Routledge contemporary Asia series ; ; 31

Altri autori (Persone)

ShinGi-Wook

SneiderDaniel C

Disciplina

355.02071

950.41

Soggetti

Nationalism and historiography - East Asia

Nationalism and education - East Asia

Historiography - Social aspects - East Asia

East Asia History, Military 20th century Textbooks

East Asia History, Military 20th century Historiography

East Asia History, Military 20th century Study and teaching (Secondary) East Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : history textbooks, divided memories, and reconciliation / Gi-Wook Shin -- War stories / Peter Duus -- Japanese history textbooks in comparative perspective / Haruo Tohmatsu -- International wars in Chinese secondary school history textbooks, 1931-1951 / Li Weike -- Colonial Korea and the Asia-Pacific War : a comparative analysis of textbooks in South Korea and Japan / Chung JaeJeong -- Colonialism, two memories : representing Japanese colonialism in Taiwan and South Korea / Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao -- Writing history textbooks in Japan / Hitoshi Mitani -- Toward pluralism? : reforming history curricula and textbooks in China, Taiwan,



and South Korea / Alisa Jones -- A history that opens to the future : the first common China-Japan-Korea history teaching guide / Soon-Won Park -- The war over words : history textbooks and international relations in Northeast Asia / Daniel C. Sneider -- Europe's troubled World War II memories : are they that different? / Daniel Chirot.

Sommario/riassunto

Over the past fifteen years Northeast Asia has witnessed growing intraregional exchanges and interactions, especially in the realms of culture and economy. Still, the region cannot escape from the burden of history. This book examines the formation of historical memory in four Northeast Asian societies (China, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan) and the United States focusing on the period from the beginning of the Sino-Japanese war in 1931 until the formal conclusion of the Pacific War with the San Francisco Peace Treaty of 1951. The contributors analyse the recent efforts of Kor