Beschreibung:
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.
1 Introduction 2 Comparative Excerpts from textbooks of China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States on 8 historical issues Part I Textbook Content: A Comparative Analysis 3 War Stories 4 Japanese History Textbooks as seen in a Comparative Perspective 5 International Wars in Chinese Secondary School History Textbooks 6 Colonial Korea and the Asia-Pacific War 7 One Colonialism, Two Memories 8 On Looking into Chinese History Textbooks Part II Textbook Politics: Domestic and International Implications 9 Writing history textbooks in Japan 10 Towards Pluralism? Reforming History Curricula and Textbooks in China, Taiwan and South Korea 11 History that Opens the Future 12 The War Over Words 13 Europe's Troubled World War II Memories