Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 26, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba B2 Winnipeg free May world history a hot subject in Hong Kong by Raymond Chow associated press Hong Kong for Wong Shin Shan has been telling his students at one of Hong Kongs patriotic schools that their history books Are he had Only government prescribed textbooks to work and he saw them As they denigrate China and ignore the unsavoury Side of British colonial he told his class As Hong Kong prepares to return to chivas the 62year old history teacher feels close to Vin he expects new texts will reflect the Pride in being chinese that the territory five patriotic or pro chinese schools have tried to and How it should be is coming in for heated debate in the last Days before the july 1 chinese officials say Hong Kongs textbooks need Chris Pat the outgoing British worries China wants to dictate to teachers what facts it is politically wrong for them to if the students themselves Arent Tak ing to the barricades on this it is because there largely outside the patriotic history is a subject that has always taken a Back seat in this booming commercial Centre to and Busi Ness Tor people with even to Eliest tilings in life May i your arthritis medication May cause and you May not feel a stomach because your arthritis a pain talk to your doctor or or calf for More se4rle Small Steps Lead to great Isis says that when her class discussed chivas thorny relationship with Japan i was ashamed when i realized i know so Little about my own the patriotic Camp blames that on what it sees As an Anglo Centric View of Hong Kong it rejects the conventional Wisdom that Hong Kong was empty and bar Ren until the British landed in 1841 and began turning it into a financial it says this ignores evidence that a thriving Community existed Here Long before the British the critics also maintain the text books gloss Over the main roots of Hong Kongs colonial existence As a base from which British traders could Force nearby China to import in Britain imported too much chinese Tea and it needed to Export opium to balance the Wong the Issue became More charged when chinese foreign minister Qian Lichen said some textbooks needed revision because they contradict the Basic the Constitution that Bei Jing has written for the Qian did not but Patten called zians remarks officials of the postcolonial gov portray the needed changes As largely for they should teach Hong Kongs past As part of chinese not world and text books should Call China the Mother not a neighbouring pupils of Prochink Fukien Middle school take chinese the system fools says in Vic principal of Pui Kiu mid dle another patriotic it Doest want you to know your own your own you would find no justification for colonial Pui like songs Fukien Middle has Long been at a disadvantage because of its Prochink the patriotic which started out As private institutions but later began getting state contend that until the government what you need now costs a whole lot 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