Includes bibliographical references and index.

The predicament of compiling textbooks on the history of East Asia / Sun Ge -- Teaching "the others' history" in Chinese schools : the state, cultural asymmetries, and shifting images of Europe (1900 to today) / Gotelind Müller -- The construction of "self" and western and Asian "others" in contemporary Japanese civics and ethics textbooks / Klaus Vollmer -- Learning to love the motherland : "national education" in post-retrocession Hong Kong / Edward Vickers -- Telling histories of an island nation : the academics and politics of history textbooks in contemporary Taiwan / Lungchih Chang -- New curriculum reform and history textbook compilation in contemporary China / Li Fan -- The "others" in Chinese history textbooks : with a focus on the relationship between China and Japan / Su Zhiliang -- Rewriting history in a textbook in contemporary Japan / Miyake Akimasa -- The "Tokyo trial view of history" and its revision in contemporary Japan/East Asia / Steffi Richter -- History conflicts and dialogues between Korea and Japan : with a focus on the current issue concerning Japanese history textbooks / Chung Jae-jeong -- Historical reconciliation between Germany and Poland as seen from a Japanese perspective : the thoughts of a Japanese historian and their development / Kawate Keiichi -- Mediating textbook conflicts / Falk Pingel.