A series of recent remarks by China’s education minister, Yuan Guiren, have got many freethinking individuals in China concerned: according to Yuan, textbooks and thoughts from the “West” should be banished from Chinese schools.
“Greater management should be put in place for using original Western teaching materials,” Yuan said, according to Xinhua, the state news agency.
“Materials touting Western values are forbidden inside our classrooms.” Yuan was meeting representatives from universities across China in Beijing.
Among his comments was this barb: “Verbal attack or slander of Party leaders, or discussion that vilifies socialism, should never be heard in classrooms.”
Do you really have a clue? What do you expect your subordinates to do?
, sociology professor
