Abstract
This study deals with how to improve the description of ‘Hwa’ih-ron’ (Theory on the Civilized and Barbarians) and ‘Zhonghua ideology’ (Confucian Universalism ideology) in the curriculum and textbook on East Asian History revised on 2015. In the first chapter, this study reviewed the brief history of ‘Hwa’ih-ron’, focused on the possibility of ‘Yong-xia-bian-yi’ (the Confucian Civilization becoming to Confucian barbarism). Secondly, this study analyzed the thoughts and discourses of governing classes in East Asian countries, which regarded their own countries and its attributes as the ‘Zhonghua’ (the Confucian Civilizaiton), Finally, in the third chapter, this study devised the vulnerability of the curriculum and textbook revised on 2015, and suggested alternative plan.<BR> Considering on ‘how much and how different in the self-presence notion and identity acquiring mechanism in East Asian countries at the end of traditional societies may provide the opportunity to check the ‘Differences’ faced to today’s East Asia in freshly different respects. The target of subject of East Asian history, the understanding on others can acquire firmer logical foothold through many phenomena of ‘resemblance and difference’ based on successive time view, and studies and introspections on it.
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