Historians as Rooted Cosmopolitans: Their Potentials and Limitations

• Main Author: SAITO, Hiro
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Cosmopolitanism; East Asia; Historians; Nationalism; Transnational Epistemic Networks; Asian Studies; Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration; Sociology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1888; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3145/viewcontent/SAITO_2015_Global_Networks_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

In the 1990s, the so-called 'history problem' began to escalate in East Asia as the result of mutually reinforcing nationalist commemorations in Japan, South Korea and China. In response, historians from the three countries organized joint historical research and textbook projects. In this...