After a Hong Kong elementary school teacher misrepresented the history of the Opium War, the Wen Wei Po in Hong Kong has continuously exposed a number of problematic Hong Kong textbooks in recent days. In addition to those general education textbooks that have not been reviewed by the Education Bureau, there is actually one that has been approved. History textbooks also have the problem of distorting history.
Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po pointed out on May 6 that in a junior high school history textbook "Modern Junior High School Chinese History" reviewed by the Education Bureau, it described Lin Zexu as “not understanding the trade situation in the UK” and “without considering the effect of smoking ban on Sino-British relations. "Impact" and "recklessly banning opium unilaterally. This is obviously unwise and will eventually lead to war." They also claimed that this "summarized" the words of American historian Shi Jingqian.
"Chinese History of Modern Junior High School" involved page, picture from: social media
Modern Education Press stated in response to the question that the textbook describing the Opium War was “written objectively and impartially”, and the other part also wrote about the British importing to China. Opium, its poisoning of Chinese people's livelihood, the influence of the "Nanjing Treaty", etc., "affirmed Lin Zexu's historical status."
However, Deng Fei, the vice chairman of the Hong Kong Federation of Educational Associations, listed the original text of Shi Jingqian's "In Search of Modern China" on his social media and compared it with the description in the textbook. He said that he did not find that Professor Shi Jingqian said that Lin Zexu was "unwise". This shows that the description of the textbook is not compiled from Shi Jingqian's words at all.
Some teachers bluntly said that textbooks openly misleading students are certainly a serious problem, but this kind of out-of-the-box content can even be censored on textbooks, which is even more worrying.
Mu Jiajun, vice chairman of the Hong Kong Youth Democratic Alliance for the Betterment of Hong Kong and a general education teacher, said that in the past, society often focused on the lack of management of general education textbooks without censorship, but now "even censored Chinese history textbooks can end up being fine. Problems still occur", the situation is really worrying.
On the other hand, Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" has also exposed several questionable general education textbooks. These textbooks do not need to be approved by the Education Bureau. Therefore, Hong Kong general education textbooks have always promoted anti-China, "Hong Kong independence" and distorted history. Hardest hit area. According to a Hong Kong "Wen Wei Po" report on May 9, the general education textbooks of the Hong Kong Public School Zhao Yuxiu Memorial Middle School blatantly instilled the concept of "Hong Kong independence", and students were also asked to watch videos of "Hong Kong independence" elements propagating split ideas.
On the 8th, a parent exposed the school’s general education materials for spreading the idea of "Hong Kong independence" on social media, in which students were asked to discuss "Hong Kong people of different ages present differences in national identity" and provided "Hong Kong independence" "Feng Jingen, a activist, promotes a video link to his division.
These parents questioned that the obvious split thinking in the video clearly violates the Basic Law, and asked: “How can the principal of a public middle school allow this to happen?”
involved in the textbook content, Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" reported screenshot
Hong Kong " "Wen Wei Po" checked the video and found that Feng claimed in the video that he "felt the poor sanitation environment in the Mainland since he was a child", "Wenchuan Earthquake disappointed him in the Chinese government", and also used high-sounding "reasons" such as "defending Hong Kong's core values". Supported their "Hong Kong independence" thinking and claimed that "we have no obligation to help them (China) build". The
textbook lists this person's views on "Hong Kong independence" and also requires students to check Feng's "identity", which can be described as a combination of video and text. The textbooks of this school are not limited to this problem. Hong Kong’s "Wen Wei Po" also revealed that the school beautifies the "Occupy Central" in its textbooks, defaces the Mainland with partiality, discredited the government, and guides students to misinterpret the Basic Law and Hong Kong and Hong Kong under "One Country, Two Systems". The relationship between the country has even blatantly discredited the mainland's "seeing the money, hitting the top, and urinating anywhere". This completely violates the original intent of general education textbooks to require students to make objective comments and critical thinking.
The Hong Kong Education Bureau stated that the school’s general education textbook has been discontinued this year, but they attach great importance to it and will follow up seriously.
On the 8th, Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" also reported a Hong Kong general education textbook promoting the "China Threat Theory". In the subject of "China's Reform and Opening Up", this textbook exaggerated the "China Threat Theory" extensively, describing China's "dictatorial government", "undermining world peace", "threatening global security", and "exporting a large number of cheap products...to a large number of workers "Unemployment", "intensifying global warming" and so on.
A general education textbook that exaggerates the "China Threat Theory", photo from: Hong Kong Wenhui Net
The page is finally accompanied by a set of comic comparisons of "The evil dragon roaring to the earth" and "Looking at the Chinese dragon through colored glasses", which seems to imply the contrast between attacking China and slandering China. Hong Kong Legislative Council Member Ke Chuangsheng said that the page obviously only lists the "negative arguments" of China's development, and does not have positive views. He hopes to find out whether other parts of the textbook are also unbalanced or even completely biased. In addition to these problematic textbooks, the troubled Hong Kong forces have also been exposed to use student drawing competitions to politically brainwash Hong Kong students. On the 8th, Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Po" reported that a parent revealed that in a painting activity mainly promoted by Hong Kong's "Education Association", many shortlisted works were "coincidentally" related to the dark storm or "Hong Kong independence" theme.
The finalist work of the competition "Hand in hand to guard justice", the content is mobs blocking the police car, picture from: Hong Kong Wenhui website
After investigation, the report pointed out that the painting competition was actually directors of the "Occupy Central" Hong Kong chaos Chen Jianmin and Zhu Yaoming. The "Hong Kong Civic Education Foundation" initiated a theme article under the theme of "Hand in hand, care for each other; hand in hand, holding justice". The article cleverly named "Love Hong Kong", and actually advocated that "anti-Twenty-Three" and "anti-send China" are "the core value of defending our homeland". In addition to textbooks and student activities, there are also "Huangshi" indoctrinating students against China. On May 1st, it was revealed on the Internet that a certain elementary school teacher said that “Britain launched a war to eliminate opium” while teaching. This has aroused strong indignation among the people. As of May 6, more than 30,000 Hong Kong citizens have signed a letter requesting the expulsion of the "opium master". The forces that disrupt Hong Kong do everything they can to indoctrinate Hong Kong youths with anti-China and "Hong Kong independence" ideas.
Hong Kong’s "Wen Wei Po" issued a special question on this issue. In the face of these problems, the Hong Kong Education Association, the largest "Yellow Teacher" organization, has not dared to respond positively. Is it because they really believe that there is no problem with such professionalism and distortion of history? Are they tacitly agreeing that "Master Huang" misleads his children? The article also called for the SAR government not to condone and lightly spare these unscrupulous "Huang Shi" and "Save the children! Save the society!".
Source: Observer Network
