Education minister says books which ‘smear socialism’ will be banned
THE GUARDIAN - Friday 30 January 2015
China’s education minister has vowed to ban university textbooks
which promote “western values”, state media said, in the latest sign of
ideological tightening under President Xi Jinping.
“Never let textbooks promoting western values appear in our classes,”
minister Yuan Guiren said, according to a report late Thursday by
China’s official Xinhua news agency.
“Remarks that slander the leadership of the Communist Party of China”
and “smear socialism” must never appear in college classrooms, he added
according to Xinhua.
China’s universities are run by the ruling Communist party, which
tightly controls discussions of history and other topics it construes as
a potential threat to its grip on power.
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