Julia Lovell, author of "The Opium War": “China exhibits self-confidence, but also a sense of insecurity and inferiority,” she said. “Because if you are really confident, you don’t need that external validation. That’s why Nobel Prizes, or the Olympics, are so important: China feels that it needs international face.” “The British national character is portrayed very negatively in Chinese textbooks, which is right and proper. The British are ashamed of our imperial past: the racism, massacres and involvement in the slave trade. But we’ve somehow overlooked our role as opium traders.” “The problem with these Chinese textbooks is not one of accuracy, per se, but of balance. China’s education system spends far more time remembering the Opium Wars than the traumas of Communism, such as the man-made famine that killed tens of millions, and the crackdown of 1989.."
Posted on: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 08:03:20 +0000
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