... be cathartic) on both personal and nationalkollective levels. While reflecting on the fluid relationship between history writing and memory construction, this essay looks at school textbooks as a site of the 1990s political struggle between...

... would consequently say that I am not qualified to discuss the problems that Understanding Taiwan: The Society presents. Nonetheless I heard some media criticism of this textbook that positions 8:1 © 2000 by Duke University Press positions...

..., and in the lawsuit over the Ienaga textbooks.3 Isn’t it the case that imperialization education was designed to encourage the Okinawan people to die together with the Imperial Army soldiers and that the Okinawans were structurally and performatively coerced...

...) A formal apology for the crime. (d) Erection of a memorial to victims of the crime. (e) Payment of reparations to the victims and their bereaved families. (f) Inclusion of the history of Military Sexual Slavery in school textbooks...

.... Monanen (known to friends as Ah Neng) examines another form of nation invention through symbolic struggle being conducted among high positions 8:1 Spring 2000 6 school students with a textbook called...

.... In children’s daily lives, textbooks on moral education teach the importance of physical fitness, while materials related to studying and testing include advice to parents and children about appropriate food to eat during exams. In this way...

.... This disavowing transfiguration can be gleaned from a reading of Confu- cian Ethics, a textbook used in the Religious Knowledge program. It opens with an interpellation of the adolescent student: “Having grown not only in body but also in mind, you...

... to put the horrible images in the context of China and Japan’s sad history in the long twentieth century. Most discussions of the “history issue” outline the problems with Japan’s biased history textbooks, semi-­official denials, and half...

... in the textbooks produced for Japan’s government-­controlled public education system. Protests have included demands for a stronger admission of war guilt on the part of a succession of postwar Japanese governments. A second issue has to do with the state...

... following news reports in Korea about newly published Japanese history textbooks that distorted representation of Korea under Japanese rule (Son 2011 ), though discussion about the Hall began in 1960. Designed to “reflect on the meaning of Korean identity,” it opened August 15, 1987, and has since...

... justice to the victims of sex slavery. In response to their appeals, the Japanese Ministry of Education approved the inclusion of a short narrative about the military comfort women in the national high school history textbooks, but a group...

... taken full responsibility for its colonial aggression at the Tokyo Trial, an entirely different outcome from the Nuremberg Trials, which compelled Germany to come to terms with the legacy of Nazism. Since the 1982 textbook controversy and even up until today, the discourse of “coming to terms...

... Yi’s text on children’s drawings—and the China Book Bureau (Zhonghua shuju), was nothing short of decisive. The Chinese “business of enlighten- ment” rested squarely on sales of textbooks and other educational materials to schools, parents...

... to understand the struggles of African Americans that he heard through rap music thanks to school textbooks that included Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, and others, a reminder that, as Yukiko Koshiro describes, African American literature has had...

... opinion in Taiwan to legitimize past Japanese colonial rule. Manga artist Kobayashi is also a founding member of the Japanese Society for Historical Textbook Reform, a group whose mem- bers exhibit varying degrees of conservativeness. He is a figure...

... and distorts reality to the ethnographic observation that people consume these trivial representations with a certain implicit understanding of their limitations.Chances are that the venerealogy and dermatology textbook and its color plates left our two...

... 252 print media “first as a technical concern and second as a social-psychological one.” Long gives a compelling example of how intermedial history works. Integrating government policy, textbooks, literary experiments, and techno­...

... shrine in Tokyo, the Japanese Ministry of Education’s approval of a school textbook that whitewashed Japanese wartime activities, and a proposal that Japan be made a member of the United Nations (UN) Permanent Security Council — all issues...

... .” Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6 , no. 2 : 135 – 51 . Wang Fu-chang . 2005 . “ Why Bother about School Textbooks? An Analysis of the Origin of the Disputes over Renshi Taiwan Textbooks in 1997 .” In Cultural, Ethnic, and Political Nationalism in Contemporary Taiwan , edited by Makeham John...

... the Revolution of 1896 in Filipino textbooks, is recognized as the foundational event in the life of the nation-state. Without a collective memory of the first war, the present nation-state would have no meaning to its citizens...