中国の新歴史教科書で毛沢東姿を消す

フランスのブローデル派の歴史観をモデルにした中国・上海の新歴史教科書では毛沢東はほぼ姿を消し、南京大虐殺は中学でほんの少し触れられるのみとなる。新教科書では経済成長、創造、多様な文化といったバズワードに焦点が当てられており、ビル・ゲイツニューヨーク証券取引所スペースシャトル、日本の新幹線などが登場する。しかし中学の歴史教科書ではまだ日本の侵略を批判する内容となっており戦後の平和発展への言及もほんの少しにすぎない。

History does not belong to emperors or generals,” Mr. Zhou said in an interview. “It belongs to the people. It may take some time for others to accept this, naturally, but a similar process has long been under way in Europe and the United States.”
Mr. Zhou said the new textbooks followed the ideas of the French historian Fernand Braudel. Mr. Braudel advocated including culture, religion, social customs, economics and ideology into a new “total history.” That approach has been popular in many Western countries for more than half a century.
Students now study Mao ― still officially revered as the founding father of modern China but no longer regularly promoted as an influence on policy ― only in junior high. In the senior high school text, he is mentioned fleetingly as part of a lesson on the custom of lowering flags to half-staff at state funerals, like Mao's in 1976.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/world/asia/01china.html