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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (305 p.)
• Disciplina: 355.02071; 950.41
• Soggetto topico: Nationalism and historiography - East Asia; Nationalism and education - East Asia; Historiography - Social aspects - East Asia
• Soggetto geografico: 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
• Altri autori: ShinGi-Wook SneiderDaniel C
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: History textbooks and the wars in Asia
• ISBN: 1-136-83090-1; 1-283-36373-9; 9786613363732; 0-203-83166-7; 1-136-83091-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814001303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Routledge contemporary Asia series ; ; 31.