National education 國民教育

[Meng Lelan]

Thank you skylee, this is most interesting discussion.

[skylee]

A very good story - 23分鐘的奇蹟 (in Japanese with Chinese subtitles)

youtube -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kE3pvls26q0

mainland -> http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/sfPSXLYqxWs/ or http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDM3NTE1MTg0.html or http://www.56.com/u85/v_NTc2MjM4ODI.html#st=0&fromoutpvid=NTc2MjM4ODI&

[imron]

It's all in those last couple of sentences.

Haha, it's amazing how relevant and topical an old Japanese TV show was.

[skylee]

This is the original story -> The Children's Story

[imron]

Give or take a couple of places, they followed it quite accurately in the TV show.

[roddy]

Off-topic posts removed - if you happen to note some random vocab matter in a link, that does not mean you need to post at length about it. New topics are free.

[Kobo-Daishi]

Roddy wrote:

Off-topic posts removed - if you happen to note some random vocab matter in a link, that does not mean you need to post at length about it. New topics are free.

My bad. I thought it would be interesting to compare the experience of assimilation during Japanese occupation era Taiwan with the brainwashing by the PRC's national education.

I've since started a separate topic.

Kobo.

[skylee]

I think this is the final result of the anti-national education campaign -> Curriculum Guide of Moral and National Education subject formally shelved

[Scandinavian]

More on this story http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1063393/beijing-will-use-tighter-rein-hk-says-analyst

As one of the comments below the story says, this is based on one analysts view, but the fact that the topic gets continued attention could mean there is something to it