2015年7月22日 星期三

Taiwan Has Its Own Textbook Controversy Brewing

Critics say the new history curriculum is an attempt to appease Beijing and sway Taiwanese youth toward unification.
FOREIGNPOLICY.COM
  • “When discussing the 228 Incident and the White Terror era, the guidelines stress that it was a result of the civil war between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party. Therefore, the government had no choice but to crush the uprising and arrest so many people,” Chen Tsui-lien, an academic specializing in Taiwanese history at National Taiwan University, told Foreign Policy. “The new curriculum also does not discuss the waves of social movement fighting for democracy in Taiwan [during the terror period] and simply says the bans on media and political parties were lifted under the KMT rule,” implying it was a result of KMT beneficence. She characterized the textbook revisions as “politically motivated.”

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