A middle school literature exam in Chengdu has triggered the latest outburst of anti-Japanese nationalism. Students were asked to analyze an excerpt from “Fallen Azaleas,” an amateurish piece of fiction by the virtually unknown...
Space for free expression in Hong Kong continues to shrink. On Wednesday, a judge convicted five speech therapists of sedition after they published a series of illustrated children’s books. On Saturday, the judge sentenced each...
China is set to investigate school textbooks after illustrations deemed to be sexually suggestive or politically inappropriate caused an uproar on social media. On Monday, the Chinese Ministry of Education ordered a nationwide...
In the wake of China’s annual “Two Sessions” meetings in Beijing, the Ministry of Education has announced a slew of new regulations aimed at protecting children’s physical, mental, and political health....
Xi Jinping has long put focus on ideological work in China’s universities and colleges,...
A group of top Chinese universities have established departments to oversee the “ideological...
The Washington Post’s Emily Rauhala reports on Chen Qiuyan (aka Qiu Bai), a 20-year-old...
As of February 27, the following search terms are blocked on Weibo (not including the “search for...
Donald Clarke translates three questions from Shen Kui, former vice dean of Peking University Law...
At Tea Leaf Nation, Liz Carter notes that, much to the chagrin of many netizens, an essay by...
From The Yomiuri Shimbun: Eight geography books seized at Shanghai customs that had been destined for a school for Japanese children residing in China have been sent back to Japan probably because they depicted the disputed...
From Economist: “Classes struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.” Such, wrote Mao Zedong, is history. Such, too, was history teaching. In the 1970s it was not uncommon for a teacher to begin a lesson by telling students to take a ruler, turn to a page of their textbook, lay the ruler along the side […]
From openDemocracy: The seventeenth congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) opens on 15 October 2007. Ahead of this major, five-day event, and in line with China’s media regulations, strict controls are already in place to limit the number of “negative” stories in the news. Under orders from the party’s central propaganda department, chief editors […]
From the International Herald Tribune: When high school students in Shanghai crack their history textbooks this fall, they may be in for a surprise. The new standard world history text drops wars, dynasties and Communist revolutions in favor of colorful tutorials on economics, technology, social customs and globalization. Socialism has been reduced to a single, […]
From The Japan Times Online: At a time when Beijing is upbraiding Tokyo for its depiction in history textbooks of the invasion and occupation of China in the 1930s and 1940s — and used it as a reason for excluding Japan from the United Nations Security Council — it has exposed its own politicization of […]
Japan may not be the only place where history is often twisted, accourding to this article in the New York Times.
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