Constructing Collective Memory for (De)Colonisation: Taiwanese Images in History Textbooks, 1950-1987

Autor/inn/en	Huang, Hsuan-Yi; Chen, Hsiao-Lan
Titel	Constructing Collective Memory for (De)Colonisation: Taiwanese Images in History Textbooks, 1950-1987
Quelle	In: Paedagogica Historica: International Journal of the History of Education, 55 (2019) 1, S.101-120 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Huang, Hsuan-Yi)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0030-9230
DOI	10.1080/00309230.2018.1546328
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Visual Aids; Textbooks; History Instruction; Memory; Land Settlement; Asian Culture; Asian History; Educational History; Textbook Content; High Schools; Junior High Schools; Secondary School Curriculum; Taiwan; China + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Anschauungsmaterial; Textbook; Text book; Schulbuch; Lehrbuch; History lessons; Geschichtsunterricht; Gedächtnis; Siedlungsraum; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Lehrbuchtext; High school; Oberschule; Sekundarstufe I
Abstract	History curriculum and textbooks, as a key mechanism of constructing collective memory, play a critical role in shaping national, social, and cultural imaginations of the young. This paper analyses history textbooks in Taiwan during the martial law period (1950-1987) to explore narratives about Taiwan and examines the ways in which those narratives as collective memory created particular images of Taiwan. The analysis indicates that history textbooks delineated two threads of narrative, one is a "Sinicisation" narrative, namely Chinese colonisation, and the other is Chinese restoration narrative. The "Sinicisation" narrative constructed particular collective memory about Taiwan being of Chinese descent and an inheritor of Chinese culture, "lost" and "restored" by China after World War II. In the narrative of restoration, Taiwan was imagined as reborn to be the model child of Chinese descent that was obligated to emancipate all Chinese compatriots from Communism and to ultimately realise the goal of Chinese reunification. These narratives served for emancipating Taiwan from Japanese colonisation and constructed particular collective memory that "Sinicised" Taiwan for Chinese restoration. The image of Taiwan as Chinese descent, identified with Chinese culture, has endured to the present and continue to shape imaginations and discourses about Taiwan in the present. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01