The second grade of Hong Kong Middle School China History Section will adopt a new curriculum outline in September. Compared with the content of the old Chinese history books, there are new textbooks to delete negative descriptions related to the Qing Dynasty in the Opium War.
According to the Hong Kong Ming Daily report today (5th), the new textbooks from the two publishing houses have moved the background of the Qing court trade restrictions and the background of Sino -British trade imbalances, and moved away from the background chapter of the Opium War.Starting point of the background.The new book has also deleted negative governance descriptions such as the Qing government's "self -dwelling" and "retreat" and "retreat".
There are teachers in History of Zhongshi that education emphasizes multi -angle understanding of the incident, but the current political situation does not allow multi -angle discussions, especially historical events involving nationalism.
Chen Renqi, a teacher of Chinese history, said that the curriculum and textbooks now need to cooperate with the political situation and cannot be discussed in many perspectives. Therefore, when telling the background of the Opium War, the new book emphasizes Britain's invasion of China and poisoning the Chinese with opium.He believes that the "red line" is currently around, and "there are other voices of teachers in the front line." In order to feel at ease as much as possible, the teachers "must be taught" in class.
Huang Jialiang, another Chinese history teacher, said that in the past, there was a view that the Opium War was for the business war of free trade, but historians generally refuted the view.Advanced the British "unreasonable point of view" into the book, and now emphasize China's views.
