NYT on China’s new textbooks
Surely I’m not alone in thinking this story is huge.
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Surely I’m not alone in thinking this story is huge.
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September 5th, 2006 at 11:31 am
me too. If history textbooks enforce more capitalism than nationalism, it blows my theory out of the water that the Chinese government uses nationalism as a way to enforce loyalty. On one hand, the Chinese probably could do with a little less idolizing of Mao, but on the other hand, where’s learning from history’s mistakes? I think that even before this, there seems to be little reflection on learning from atrocities like the Cultural Revolution. The whole education scheme that the story describes seems lacking in…a little soul?