History textbooks are the only history books that majority of people read in their lives. This article investigates impact on young Chinese people's understanding nation's modern history, as revealed popular microblogging site Sina Weibo. We analysed posts related to and representations three contentious turning points communist historical narrative: May Fourth Movement 1919, nationalist assaul...

Both written and graphic accounts of history can be biased by the perspective of the historian. O'Hara (Biol Philos 7:135-160, 1992) has demonstrated that this also applies to evolutionary history and its historians, and identified four narrative devices that introduce anthropocentricisms into accounts of phylogeny. In the current paper, I identify a fifth such narrative device, viz. the left-r...

In this children’s story, Salmon Rushdie aptly portents a world in which narrative is no longer defined by the single, perfectly articulated linear strand but rather by a rich web of interconnected strands of story that float together in a “tapestry of breathtaking complexity.” For the past 25 years, many researchers, artists and designers have worked to realize a dream of creating complex narr...

Based on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) informed genre theory, this paper investigates the interplay between narrative and analytical representations of past in texts used for history-educational purposes. In paper, it is argued that role merits further attention history descriptions. Thirteen texts, selected from a lower-secondary history-instructional unit about European colonization, ...