Contents
Foreword?Thongchai Winichakul ?ix
Acknowledgments ?xi
Introduction: Toward a Southeast Asian Identity? Schools as Contested Sites of Collective Memory ?1
Will Brehm
Part I: Regional Memory
1. ?The UNESCO Shared Histories Curriculum: Paradoxes and Possibilities ?23
Rosalie Metro and Will Brehm
2. ?Regional Memory in Contemporary Cambodia: ?Cautious Resistance and Calculated Conformity? ?47
Will Brehm
Part II: National Memory
3. ?Whose Kingdoms and Whose Settlement? Hegemonic National Memory Inside Thai Textbooks ?75
Vong-on Phuaphansawat and Will Brehm
4. ?Vietnamese Citizenship in Transition: State Curricula Pre- and Post-Doi Moi ?103
Bich-Hang Duong
Part III: Public Memory
5. ?Thinking With History in Pursuit of Truth in Myanmar ?133
Anna Zongollowicz
6. ?Finding Unity in Diversity: Public Identity Patterns in Lao PDR ?153
Will Brehm, Thongdeuane Nanthanavone, Somsanit Larvankham, and Yasushi Hirosato
7. ?Exploring Unity and Diversity in the Histories of Southeast Asia ?177
Yuto Kitamura
Afterword?Shigeru Aoyagi ?187
About the Editors and Contributors ?191
Index ?193