MICHAEL ONDAATJE, a Sri Lankan-born Canadian novelist, has spent his career depicting the lives of misfits and migrants; people often absent from official histories.

迈克尔·翁达杰，一位在斯里兰卡出生的加拿大小说家。一直致力于描写不合群者，移民，那些没有载入正史的人们的生活。

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The number of official and local histories, memoirs and gazetteers containing military data is vast, although only a tiny pro-portion is yet available in translation.

官方修订的历史和地方志、回忆录、邸报含有大量关于军事的内容，尽管这其中只有极少的部分已经过翻译。

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In what could be a seminal step, Japanese and Korean historians recently proposed to jointly produce a supplementary textbook for schoolchildren aimed at plugging holes in their nations' official histories.

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