Edward Vickers

Edward Vickers
Associate Professor in Comparative Education, Kyushu University, Japan
http://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K004574/english.html
edvickers08 [at] gmail.com
Research themes
I research the contemporary history of education in Chinese societies (mainland China,
Taiwan and Hong Kong), with a particular focus on the role of schools and other public
institutions (e.g. museums) in political socialization. I also conduct comparative research on
portrayals of foreign ‘Others’, through schooling and other media, in the societies of East
Asia, and have recently been involved in coordinating a project looking at portrayals of Japan
in other East Asian societies.
Principal publications
Books
In Search of An Identity: The Politics of History as a School Subject in Hong Kong, 1960s-2002. (2003).
Published in the Routledge series East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology, Culture. New York
and London: Routledge. (Second edition, with new Afterword and Preface, published in
2005 by the Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong.)
Education as a Political Tool in Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009 (edited with Marie Lall).
History Education and National Identity in East Asia. New York and London: Routledge, 2005
(edited with Alisa Jones).
Selected articles / book chapters
« Le péché originel sur l’ile du paradis? Histoire colonial de Taiwan sous la dynastie Qing » in
S. Ferhat, S. Marchand (dir.), Taïwan, île de mémoires, Lyon, Tigre de papier, 2011, p. 35-57.
‘Learning to Love the Motherland: Cultural Policy, ‘National Education’ and Schooling in
Post-Retrocession Hong Kong’, in Gotelind Muller (ed.) Redesigning History in East Asian
Textbooks, Routledge, 2011, p. 85-116.
« Histoire, identité et la politique des musées à Taiwan: réflexions sur la transition du DPP au
KMT » Perspectives chinoises 3, 2010, p. 99-115.
‘Selling Socialism with Chinese Characteristics: “Thought and Politics” and the
Legitimisation of China’s Developmental Strategy,’ The International Journal of Educational
Development 29, 2009 (special issue on ‘Education and Development in Contemporary
China’), p. 523-531.
‘Education, identity and the politics of modern state formation in Asia – a comparative and
historical perspective’, in Marie Lall and Edward Vickers (ed.) Education as a Political Tool in
Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, p. 10-32.
‘The opportunity of China? Education, patriotic values and the Chinese state’, in Marie Lall
and Edward Vickers (ed.) Education as a Political Tool in Asia. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009,
p. 53-82.
‘Rewriting Museums in Taiwan’ in Shih Fang-long, Paul-Francois Tremlett and Stuart
Thompson (ed.) Rewriting Culture in Taiwan. Abingdon: Routledge, 2009, p. 69-101.
‘Frontiers of Memory: Conflict, Imperialism and Official Histories in the Formation of the
Post-Cold War Taiwan Identity,’ in Rana Mitter and Sheila Miyoshi Jager (ed.) Ruptured
Histories: War, Memory and the Post-Cold War in Asia. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
Press, 2007, p. 209-232.