Reviews and evaluates a selection of influential geography textbooks on East Asia and China. The 11 textbooks are ranked in 20 categories for the purpose of facilitating textbook selection and helping instructors evaluate the texts they are currently using. Specific strengths and weaknesses of each text are identified. (Author/DB)

Asian studies at the elementary and secondary levels and the needs for teacher education are the focus of this paper. Trends of the last few decades that may have negatively affected the place of Asia in the school curriculum are first examined. Calls for multiethnic education, a back-to-basics movement, and economic and law-related education may…