Historical Narratives of East Asia in the 21st Century

Overcoming the Politics of National Identity

Hitoshi Tanaka, Jake Odagiri, Yufei Zhou

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2020
• ISBN:
  9781000053173
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Sciences sociales
• Subtopic: Études ethniques

In the twenty-first century, East Asia has been increasingly marked both by tensions at a government level and a chauvinistic mood among the polity. While China's rise is in one respect the proximate driver of these changes in tone, it draws on a range of unresolved grievances among the respective historical narratives of Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan and the Koreas. These conflicting views of the region's past are a crucial barrier to its cohesive and stable future.

This book brings together East Asian scholars from a range of academic disciplines, including China historians, political historians and political scientists to illuminate the interconnectedness of East Asia and discuss how a shared historical narrative might be constructed. Their contributions are organised into 3 parts focusing respectively on historical narratives of China, historical narratives of East Asia, and reconciling historical narratives.

The book will appeal to researcher interested in the historical narratives of international relations in East Asia.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of contributors
• Preface for English readership
• Original preface
• General introduction
• PART I Historical narratives of China
• PART II Historical narratives of East Asia
• PART III Toward a generally accepted historical narrative in East Asia
• Afterword
• Timeline
• Index