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Education, Politics and Sino-Japanese Relations: Reflections on a Three-Year Project on "East Asian Images of Japan"
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Vickers, Edward – Educational Studies in Japan: International Yearbook, 2014
Drawing on a recent collaborative and interdisciplinary study of East Asian Images of Japan, this article discusses contemporary Chinese portrayals of Japan, their political context, and their significance for Sino-Japanese relations. It questions some widely-held assumptions concerning the extent of "thought control" in an authoritarian…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, International Relations, Asian Studies, Asian History
Museums and Nationalism in Contemporary China
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Vickers, Edward – Compare: A Journal of Comparative Education, 2007
This article examines the representation of Chinese identity in museums in the People's Republic of China, comparing this briefly with the portrayal of local and national identities in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In particular, the article looks at the implications for museums of the shift in emphasis within state ideology from socialism to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Ethnicity, Museums, Nationalism
War, Nation, Memory: International Perspectives on World War II in School History Textbooks. Research in Curriculum and Instruction
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Crawford, Keith A., Ed.; Foster, Stuart J., Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2007
The Second World War stands as the most devastating and destructive global conflict in human history. More than 60 nations representing 1.7 billion people or three quarters of the world's population were consumed by its horror. Not surprisingly, therefore, World War II stands as a landmark episode in history education throughout the world and its…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Textbooks, War, Memory