Struggles over Difference: Curriculum, Texts, and Pedagogyin the Asia-Pacific -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Curriculum, Ethics, Metanarrative: Teaching and Learning Beyond the Nation -- 2. "… Nothing Objectionable or Controversial": The Image of Maori Ethnicity and "Difference" in New Zealand Social Studies -- 3. State Formation, Hegemony, and Chinese School Curricula in Singapore and Hong Kong, 1945-1965 -- 4. Official Knowledge and Hegemony: The Politics of the Textbook Deregulation Policy in Taiwan -- 5. Thai English Language Textbooks, 1960-2000: Postwar Industrial and Global Changes -- 6. The Construction of Culture Knowledge in Chinese Language Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis -- 7. New Ideologies of Everyday Life in South Korean Language Textbooks -- 8. Environmental Education and Development in China -- 9. School Knowledge and Classed and Gendered Subjectivities in South Korean Commercial High Schools -- 10. Identity Conversion, Citizenship, and Social Studies: Asian-Australian Perspectives on Indigenous Reconciliation and Human Rights -- 11. Fastening and Unfastening Identities: Negotiating Identity in Hawai'i -- 12. The Question of Identity and Difference: The Resident Korean Education in Japan -- 13. History, Postmodern Discourse, and the Japanese Textbook Controversy Over "Comfort Women" -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.