READING LIKE A HISTORIAN
Sourcing the Textbooks
1) Which of these sources is for Textbook A and which is for Textbook B?
New Century: Standard History Textbook in Mandatory Education Published by
Beijing's Teachers' College Press. Beijing, China: 2001
Textbook
Explain your answer. Provide evidence from the textbook to support your claim.
New History Textbook. Published by Fusosha, Tokyo, Japan: 2005.
Textbook
Explain your answer. Provide evidence from the textbook to support your claim.
2) Which of these textbooks, if either, do you find more trustworthy? Why?
3) Where else would you look in order to figure out what happened during the
Japanese invasion of Nanking?