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      Divided Memories

      History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia

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      History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia book

      Divided Memories
      Edited ByGi-Wook Shin, Daniel C. Sneider
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2011
      eBook Published 11 February 2011
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203831663
      Pages 312
      eBook ISBN 9780203831663
      Subjects Area Studies, Education, Humanities, Politics & International Relations
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      Shin, G.-W., & Sneider, D.C. (Eds.). (2011). History Textbooks and the Wars in Asia: Divided Memories (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203831663

      ABSTRACT

      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 Korean, Japanese, and Chinese scholars to write a ‘common history’ of Northeast Asia and question the underlying motivations for their efforts and subsequent achievements. In doing so, they contend that the greatest obstacle to reconciliation in Northeast Asia lies in the existence of divided, and often conflicting, historical memories. The book argues that a more fruitful approach lies in understanding how historical memory has evolved in each country and been incorporated into respective master narratives. Through uncovering the existence of different master narratives, it is hoped, citizens will develop a more self-critical, self-reflective approach to their own history and that such an introspective effort has the potential to lay the foundation for greater self- and mutual understanding and eventual historical reconciliation in the region.

      This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of Asian history, Asian education and international relations in East Asia.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      part |1 pages

      PART I Introduction

      chapter 1|17 pages

      History textbooks, divided memories, and reconciliation: Gi-Wook Shin

      chapter |76 pages

      PART II Comparative excerpts from textbooks of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States on eight historical issues

      part 1|1 pages

      War stories

      chapter 1|14 pages

      War stories: Peter Duus

      chapter 2|25 pages

      Japanese history textbooks in comparative perspective: Haruo Tohmatsu

      chapter 3|13 pages

      International wars in Chinese secondary school history textbooks, 1931–1951

      ByLI WEIKE

      chapter 4|20 pages

      Colonial Korea and the Asia-Pacific war: a comparative analysis of textbooks in South Korea and Japan CHUNG JAEJEONG

      chapter 5|18 pages

      One colonialism, two memories: representing Japanese colonialism in Taiwan and South Korea: Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao

      ByHSIN-HUANG MICHAEL HSIAO

      part |1 pages

      PART IV Textbooks and international relations

      chapter 6|15 pages

      Writing history textbooks in Japan: Hiroshi Mitani

      ByHIROSHI MITANI

      chapter 7|22 pages

      Toward pluralism?: The politics of history textbooks in South Korea, Taiwan, and China: Alisa Jones

      BySouth Korea, Taiwan, and China ALISA JONES

      chapter 8|16 pages

      A history that opens to the future: the first common China–Japan–Korean history teaching guide: Soon-Won Park

      BySOON-WON PARK

      chapter 9|23 pages

      The war over words: history textbooks and international relations in Northeast Asia: Daniel C. Sneider

      ByDANIEL C. SNEIDER

      chapter 10|17 pages

      Europe’s troubled World War II memories: are they that different?: Daniel Chirot

      ByDANIEL CHIROT
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