Chapter 13 History, Postmodern Discourse, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy Over “Comfort Women”

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Curriculum, Ethics, Metanarrative 11
5. “… Nothing Objectionable or Controversial” 25
6. State Formation, Hegemony, and Chinese School Curricula in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1945–1965 41
7. Official Knowledge and Hegemony 59
8. Thai English Language Textbooks, 1960–2000 79
9. The Construction of Culture Knowledge in Chinese Language Textbooks 99
10. New Ideologies of Everyday Life in South Korean Language Textbooks 117
11. Environmental Education and Development in China 131
12. School Knowledge and Classed and Gendered Subjectivities in South Korean Commercial High Schools 147
13. Identity Conversion, Citizenship, and Social Studies 163
14. Fastening and Unfastening Identities 183
15. The Question of Identity and Difference 199
16. History, Postmodern Discourse, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy Over “Comfort Women” 217
17. Contributors 235
18. Index 239