History Education And National Identity In East Asia

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies. It examines history curriculum development across the entire East Asian region, analyzing changing official visions of the past in the context of political transformations such as those associated with the rise of communism, decolonization, and the Cold War divisions of China and Korea.