Preface

Steffi Richter



Introduction: De-nationalising and Re-nationalising the Past

Yonson Ahn





I. Contexts of Historical Revisionism



Historical Revisionism in East Asia: What Does Politics Have to Do with It?

Daqing Yang



Historical Revisionism in Contemporary Japan

Steffi Richter



When History Matters: Reconstructing South Korea's National Memory in the Age of Democracy

Koen De Ceuster



Historical Narratives and Trans-nationalism in East Asia

Prasenjit Duara





II. Academic Historiography



A Review of Research on Late Qing History: On the "Basic Lines" of Modern Chinese History

Lei Yi



Re-imagining Community from Different Shores: Nationalism, Post-colonialism and Colonial Modernity in Taiwanese Historiography

Chang Lung-chih



The Colonial Past in Post-colonial South Korea: Colonialism, Modernity and Gender

Yonson Ahn



East Asia Discourses in Contemporary Korea

Eun-Jeung Lee





III. History Textbooks



The Antagonistic Complicity of Nationalisms - On "Nationalist Phenomenology" in East Asian History Textbooks

Lim Jie-Hyun



Revising the Past, Contesting the Future: Reforming History Education in post-Mao China

Alisa Jones



National Fortresses Besieged: History Textbooks in Contemporary Mainland China, Taiwan, and Japan

Claudia Schneider



Writing History Textbooks in East Asia: The Possibilities and Pitfallsof "History that Opens the Future"

Iwasaki Minoru and Narita Ry?ichi





IV. Popular Culture



Historical Adventures of a Post-historical Medium: Japan's Wartime Past as Represented in Manga

Jaqueline Berndt



Manga, Manhwa and Historical Consciousnes: Trans-national Popular Media and the Narrative De/Construction of Japanese-Korean History

Yamanaka Chie



Reinterpreting Late Qing History in Historical Movies and Television Dramas: The Case of the 1898 Reforms

Li Fan and Wang Xiaojing



Revising and Televising the Past in East Asia: "History Soaps" in Mainland China

Matthias Niedenführ





V. Conclusion: Possibilities for Mutual Understanding



History Textbooks in Post-war and Post-conflict Societies: Preconditions and Experiences in Comparative Perspective

Wolfgang Höpken



Lost Memories: Historical Reconciliation and Cross-Border Narratives in Northeast Asia

Tessa Morris-Suzuki





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