Laura Elizabeth Hein - Censoring history: citizenship and memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States

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CENSORING
HISTORY

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ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Series Editor: Mark Selden, Binghamton University

Exploring one of the most dynamic and contested regions of the world, this series includes contributions on political, economic, cultural, and social changes in modern and contemporary Asia and the Pacific.

ASIAS ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS
Comparative Perspectives
Yok-shiu F. Lee and Alvin Y. So, editors

CENSORING HISTORY
Citizenship and Memory in Japan, Germany, and the United States
Laura Hein and Mark Selden, editors

CHINAS RETREAT FROM EQUALITY
Income Distribution and Economic Transition
Carl Riskin, Zhao Renwei, and Li Shih, editors

CHINAS WORKERS UNDER ASSAULT
Anita Chan

THE CONTENTIOUS CHINESE
Elizabeth J. Perry

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT
The Case of China
Shaoguang Wang and Angang Hu

THEATER AND SOCIETY
An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama
Haiping Yan, editor

WHAT IF CHINA DOESNT DEMOCRATIZE?
Implications for War and Peace
Edward Friedman and Barrett L. McCormick, editors

WOMEN IN REPUBLICAN CHINA
A Sourcebook
Hua R. Lan and Vanessa L. Fong, editors

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LAURA HEIN AND MARK SELDEN
EDITORS

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An East Gate Book

Copyright 2000 by Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
without written permission from the publisher, M. E. Sharpe, Inc.,
80 Business Park Drive, Armonk, New York 10504.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Censoring history : citizenship and memory in Japan, Germany and the United States /
edited by Laura Hein and Mark Selden.

p. c.m. (Asia and the Pacific)

An east gate book.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-7656-0446-9 (hc. : alk. paper) ISBN 0-7656-0447-7-(pbk. : alk. paper)

1. History, Modern20th centuryHistoriography. 2. History, Modern20th

centuryStudy and teaching. I. Hein, Laura Elizabeth. II. Selden, Mark. III. Asia and

the Pacific (Armonk, N.Y.)

Printed in the United States of America

The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
American National Standard for Information Sciences
Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials,
ANSI Z 39.48-1984.

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For our teachersformal and informal

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Many people helped bring this book to publication. Peter Katzenstein, James Loewen, Gavan McCormack, Gary Okihiro, Michael Sherry, and Marilyn Young provided thoughtful and challenging comments on earlier drafts of the introduction. Koseki Shoichi, Asanuma Shigeru, Akiko Hashimoto, Lane Fenrich, and John Bushnell gave helpful advice. Yuehim Tam, Steven Potts, and Kathleen Woods Masalski provided critical, engaged commentary at the 1988 meetings of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington, DC. Jennifer Rogers assisted with both ideas and dozens of trips to the library. Vinca Merriman made it clear that nine-year-olds care about the issues raised here. Nakamura Masanori first alerted us to the significance of the Orthodox History Group. Kristine Dennehy ably translated his ideas in our first project on this topic, published as Textbook Nationalism, Citizenship, and War: Comparative Perspectives, a special issue of the Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars , 30.2 (AprilJune 1998). Tom Fenton, the Bulletin s managing editor, contributed far more than his title would suggest.