Angry Chinese Blogger discusses the fruits of three years of labor, a unified history textbook co-written over a host of conferences by South Korean, Japanese, and Chinese scholars, and points out how the existence of such a moderate, honest account has been papered over in China while riots have been occuring in reaction to the narrowly-distributed Japanese textbook which itself refused to acknowledge WWII Japanese atrocities.

Though it arrived with less of a fan-fair that some feel that it deserved, particularly in China, the month of May marked the officially sanctioned release date of a new high school text book that some see as being a revolution in the teaching of Asian history, not least of all because it marks the first successful attempt to produce an account of Chinese, Korean and Japanese relations, through some of their most troubled times, to have been complied by scholars and educators from all three nations.

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And this is almost too good to be true. The good conservatives at Human Events (thanks to Lean Left for the link) have polled top conservatives about the 10 most dangerous books of the last 200 years. Surprise of surprises, the most dangerous book is the Communist Manifesto. But what the hell is progressive thinker John Dewey doing in the top five? And the Kinsey Report? Oh, we're all having fun here...

Conservatives think nukes are fine, but watch out for dangerous books!