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作者：路过 在 罕见奇谈 发贴, 来自 http://www.hjclub.org
最近一期[The Economist]刊登了一篇评论中国历史教科书的短文。
我曾写过几个关于教科书的字，
.http://www.hjclub.com/Showtopic.asp?ID=2655593
所以将该文转贴过来，评论两句。
“Study Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong's thought—and Bill Gates”
后面那个人名很形象。杂志上有个漫画：手里的小红书的封皮上写着Bill Gates。
“In May education officials in Shanghai decided to withdraw it. Since September a new book hewing closer to the old style has replaced it.”
这个时期，正好是习近平执掌上海的时期，十七大之前。
巧合？
真心想这么做？
找一个与利益瓜葛少的地方做个姿态，教科书运气不好被拿来祭旗了？
“Some of China's feistier journals, despite being state-owned, have criticised Shanghai's decision. China Newsweek, a magazine controlled by China's second-largest news agency, called it “rash”. ”
哈哈，“rash”。不知道中文原文是哪个词。
“轻率”， “鲁莽”，“性急”，或者是“未成熟”？
无论如何，比网上泛滥的那个“白痴”要文雅不少。
“make them livelier and less dogmatic”
要与时俱进啊。再不与时俱进，会被下一代的中学生笑话的。
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Chinese historiography
Textbook case
http://www.economist.com/world/asia/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10026577
Oct 25th 2007 | BEIJING
From The Economist print edition
Study Marxism, Leninism, Mao Zedong's thought—and Bill Gates
“CLASSES struggle, some classes triumph, others are eliminated.” Such, wrote Mao Zedong, is history. Such, too, was history teaching. In the 1970s it was not uncommon for a teacher to begin a lesson by telling students to take a ruler, turn to a page of their textbook, lay the ruler along the side of the page...and tear it out. Now again, in many parts of China, textbooks are being rewritten. But this time the aim is to make them livelier and less dogmatic. Some changes are raising hackles.
In September last year, the introduction of a new history textbook in Shanghai's senior secondary schools caused a storm because of its cursory treatment of Mao himself (Bill Gates and J.P. Morgan were better served). It also failed to dwell—as Chinese history textbooks ritually do—on the sufferings of pre-Communist Chinese at the hands of foreign imperialists. A group of history scholars in Beijing reportedly sent a letter to the government saying the book contained serious errors in its political orientation.
The Chinese press has now dubbed the book one of the shortest-lived in the history of Chinese textbooks. In May education officials in Shanghai decided to withdraw it. Since September a new book hewing closer to the old style has replaced it.
The controversy, however, has not abated. Some of China's feistier journals, despite being state-owned, have criticised Shanghai's decision. China Newsweek, a magazine controlled by China's second-largest news agency, called it “rash”. It said the public as well as scholars should be more tolerant of teaching materials that deviated from their set opinions. A weekend newspaper, Southern Metropolis Weekly, quoted a scholar as saying that Chinese children had been fed a “superficial” and “problematic” view of history and this “laughable” approach had to change.
Nor has China abandoned efforts to enliven textbooks and reduce rote-learning. In September some schools in Beijing (to the consternation of media commentators) introduced a new curriculum for senior secondary students that makes the study of the first and second world wars optional. Instead of plodding through history, dynasty by dynasty, textbooks are now arranged by themes such as politics and economics.
Changes in the Chinese-language curriculum have caused a stir too. In many Beijing schools this year, “The Story of Ah Q”, a gloomy allegorical novella written by Lu Xun in 1921 and long beloved by China's Communists for its damning insights into the “feudal” thinking of the time, has been dropped. New to the set texts is a martial-arts novel by a Hong Kong writer, Louis Cha. At least schoolchildren will be happy.
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