History at Stake in East Asia

Proceedings of the International Symposium organized by Rosa CAROLI, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and Pierre-François SOUYRI, University of Geneva (Venice, November 2010). CONTENTS: Rosa CAROLI, Pierre-François SOUYRI, Foreword p. vii. PART 1 THINKING MODERNITY IN EAST ASIA: Brij TANKHA, Religion and Modernity in Meiji Japan: Strengthening the People p. 3; Kent G. DENG, Role of the State and State-building in Modern China: Review and New Insight p. 21; Rosa CAROLI Bearers of Modernity: The West, Japan and Its Peripheries p. 53. PART 2 WRITING HISTORY: Pierre-François SOUYRI, Representations of the “History of Japan” During the Meiji Era: Future at Stake p. 73; Arnaud NANTA , The Japanese Colonial Historiography in Korea (1905-1945) p. 83; Laurent NESPOULOUS, Memories from Beyond the Past. Grasping Prehistoric Times in Japan: The Birth and Evolution of an “Archaeological Consciousness” (Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries) p. 107; Guido SAMARANI, Recent Trends in Chinese Historiography and the Debate on the 1911 Revolution p. 119. PART 3 NATIONALISING HISTORY: Samuel GUEX , Overcoming the Frame of National History in South Korea p. 131; Laura DE GIORGI, Learning History in Globalizing China: An Overview of Chinese High-school History Textbooks p. 155. PART 4 GLOBALISING HISTORY: Patrick Karl O’BRIEN, The Debate on Economic Divergence Between the Occident and the Orient. An Essay in Bibliography and Criticism p. 173. List of Contributors p. 197; Abstracts p. 199