History textbooks, identity politics, and ethnic introspection in Taiwan: The June 1997 knowing Taiwan textbooks controversy and the questions it raised on the variousapproaches to “han” identity

History Education and National Identity in East Asia

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 133-169

  Corcuff, Stéphane ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84920761920     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203955369     Document Type: Chapter

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