Designing History in East Asian Textbooks

This book makes an important contribution to the on-going multi- and transnational research into history education and the politics of history in East Asia by combining a refined approach to this critical topic with an up-to-date overview of the seminal issues in the field. - Torsten Weber; Monumenta Serica 59 (2011) This edited volume gives an excellent overview on the present state of schoolbook discussions in East Asia from a national and multilateral perspective; at the same time, it presents multiple ways of solving the problem of how to revise traditional narratives in school textbooks, e.g. by a transnational perspective, to further historical reconciliation via history education. - Eckhardt Fuchs, Vice director of the Georg Eckert Institute for Textbook Studies, Braunschweig; Geschichte heute (2012). The volume remedies an important lacuna for historians, textbook scholars, political scientists and all those interested in pursuing the goal of deescalating historical textbook didactics, and those concerned with potentials of conflict in the realm of educational materials. - Ylva Monschein, Chinese Studies, University of Munich; Asien (2012). In this book which incorporates contributions not only from scholars but also from people involved in textbook writing and curriculum reform, the role of History Education in the process of political socialization all over East Asia is discussed from a historical perspective... Different from a mere collection of academic papers, this book is very thorough in its overall structure and will serve as basic reference for studies of history consciousness and history textbook problems in East Asia. - Prof. SHIBA Nobuhiro, Tokyo University; Rekishigaku kenkyu (2012). The need for and the potential for a memorial reconciliation among Japan, China, and Korea are effectively put into perspective in Muller's work, whose weighty contributions offer a detailed and painstaking analysis of the aspirations and identity politics at play in the region. - Yves Russell, EHESS, Paris; China Perspectives (2013).