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A Report on the Treatment of Asia in American Textbooks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

Donn V. Hart
Donn V. Hart
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Syracuse University
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More than one hundred textbooks in American and world history, geography, modern problems and civics were examined recently by social studies and Asiatic specialists to evaluate the accuracy and adequacy of the material included on the Far East. Their report, Treatment of Asia in American textbooks (104 p. 40¢), has been published by the American Council, Institute of Pacific Relations, New York. Dr. Howard E. Wilson, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, coordinator and editor of the report, writes that “There may be arguments over what pupils need most to be taught about Asia; there can no longer be argument over the necessity of their being well informed.” One significant recommendation made by all the analysts was that experts in Asiatic affairs should be consulted more frequently by textbook authors and publishers to insure “accuracy, relevancy, and comprehensiveness of information included” on Asia.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , November 1946 , pp. 44 - 49
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1946

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References

* Committee on Asiatic Studies, American Council on Education

Howard E. Wilson, Chairman; Knight Biggerstaff, Cornell University; Dorothy Borg for the Institute of Pacific Relations; Charles B. Fahs, formerly of Pomona College and Claremont Colleges, now Assistant Director, Division of Humanities, the Rockefeller Foundation; John K. Fairbank, Harvard University; George F. Zook, American Council on Education.

Institute of Pacific Relations

Marguerite Ann Stewart, School Editor

Consultants and Reviewers

Howard R. Anderson, Cornell University; T. A. Bisson, Institute of Pacific Relations; Derk Bodde, University of Pennsylvania; W. Norman Brown, University of Pennsylvania; George B. Cressey, Syracuse University; Foster Rhea Dulles, Ohio State University; Rupert Emerson, Harvard University; Erling M. Hunt, Teachers College, Columbia University; Raymond Kennedy, Yale University; Kenneth Latourette, Yale University; G. Nye Steiger, Simmons College; Edgar B. Wesley, University of Minnesota.