Education Minister Yuan Guiren has proposed new plans to restrict the spread of Western values by limiting access to western textbooks, the New York Times reports.
The new measure was announced during a meeting with several heads of top universities around China. Books deemed to deliberately sow Western values could also be banned outright according to the proposal.
The new rules follow a pattern of increasing restriction on intellectual and cultural freedoms by Xi’s administration, which announced new guidelines last month demanding that universities promote Marxist ideology and refrain from being ‘disloyal’ to the party.
These guidelines state that teachers cannot ‘vent’ or ‘pass on unhealthy ideas’ to their students, are forbidden to allow statements that ‘attack’ party leaders in classes and must ensure that Xi’s ideology ‘enters the minds’ of students.
Source: The New York Times
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It seems pretty harsh and I don't feel happy with that. But isn't also the way to introduce that news that feel it's bad? Obviously China isn't famous for it's freedom of access to information but do we teach Chinese values in Western schools and universities? I think if we started to do so, it wouldn't be very long before a lot of people start to complain about it. We are also defending our values and as far as I can see. China got much more from western world already than the opposite. Maybe a better way to say it would be something like "Let's try to promote Chinese values more in order to not loose our tradition". Since I am in China (2004) too many times I told myself "why do they destroy there own cultural background in order to copy the west?" Of course I don't mean either that there is no control of thought, just that, this case if defendable.
Feb 03, 2015 13:21 Report Abuse
"why do they destroy there own cultural background in order to copy the west?" They did that in the Cultural Revolution. They got their 'west' wrong. These idiots thought Russia was 'West', and ended up getting communism. Columbus would laugh till he drop. LOL They figured their miserable state of existence was a product of their past. They got it right at that level, but wrong at the details. So they threw the baby (confucianism, taoism, buddhism, teachings of ancient scholars, the I-Ching, ...etc.) out and KEPT the water, instead of along with the water. LOL. The revolution later became a weapon for internal political power struggle. The result is 5000+ years of filth (face/facade/lying, control freak-dictatorial 'culture') got mixed with a violent, warmongering, class-wars (communism) ideology to become the present shithole, one of the if not the worst in mankind's history. And I am not joking. The missing piece is democracy, using an opposition party as a watchdog to guard against the inevitable negative consequences of absolute power, corruption being one. In other words, they didn't learn a damn thing from their own history. Look at the phenomenal corruption in China these days and you'll know it is simply history repeating itself. In this regard they are still at square one after 5000 years of 'learning'. Not just old wine in new bottle, the china of today is made up of the worst old wine (with the best ingredients siphoned off) in a seemingly new bottle. Last August, a famous mainland actress of exceptional physical beauty, someone every mainland chinese has heard of said this to me in private, 'mainlanders are number one in the world', she paused a split second, then continue, 'counting backwards, mainlanders are even worse than Indians'. Having been in India before I knew she nailed it. I smiled and gave her a thumbs up. I saluted her for her honestly and keen awareness. Somehow this one got out of the box. One in 100 million.:)
Feb 04, 2015 15:25 Report Abuse
'China Warns against Western Values in University Textbooks' So, CCP is starting to get worried after watching Taiwan's Sunflower Movement and Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement; both led by university students. Losing sleep over if you're next, errhh? What a 'great' country you are China, fearful of the ones among you who are at the right age to learn about independent thinking. Yeap, snub them right there when they still can be snubbed. Tightening the internet, tearing down graffiti with wake-up calls embedded, fooling the world and your own people with anti-corruption shows, calling universal values western values (go ask United Nations). You think doing these your worst nightmare, Tiananmen Square Part II, will never happen? Well, way before your birth in 1949, there was this young, brilliant doctor of western medicine called Sun Yet-sen who studied in Hong Kong and the West. You've heard of him and what he did to the Ching dynasty, the one before you, right? Doesn't ring a bell? OK, he wanted democracy for china and was recognised as the father of modern china by chinese all over the world (not you, sorry). Is that why you are so afraid of 'western' values such as democracy, universal suffrage, human rights? LOL
Feb 03, 2015 11:25 Report Abuse
We will be next to be banned I guess. Soon 天下 will be new North Korea.
Feb 03, 2015 08:13 Report Abuse
Well not video games! Now they can be bought here! I hear they are now developing new China only games. One with large mechanical vehicles protecting the trouser legs building against an angry mobs of zombified citizens aged 17 - 24.
Feb 03, 2015 12:31 Report Abuse
either they consider humanism to be western, or China is worried that students might learn how commerce, propaganda and the justice system work. that might raise some awkward questions. since the government can't tolerate accountability, blame the west, harmonize, and educate at a no-child-left-behind pace. i wouldn't be surprised if many university students have a cartoon as favourite tv show.
Feb 03, 2015 01:57 Report Abuse
While all but the most cowering of students waive your containment efforts aside. And yet you ponder the reasons for the desperation of students (and their forward-thinking parents) to be schooled elsewhere.
Feb 02, 2015 23:17 Report Abuse
Another example of how China wishes not to be a part of the modern world. This current government is extremely anti foreign and will send China back to the Stone Age. Foreign companies should have balls to stand up to China and put an end to this. China would be nothing without western influence.
Feb 02, 2015 21:04 Report Abuse
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