Earlier this month, the Chinese Communist Party’s Ministry of Education issued an order to prevent problematic reading materials from entering schools, with censorship of books sinking directly from universities to primary and secondary schools. The ban, which is divided into 12 articles, is officially called the “12 Negative List,” which is vague and without any enforcement criteria, and is politically termed the so-called “cleanup of campus poisoning. The incident has led to a lot of complaints from parents of students. Some scholars say that this is a stupid and foolish approach by the authorities in the information age, and question why the authorities allow their sons and daughters to study abroad.
It is understood that, unlike in the past, the executive order issued by the Ministry of Education requires strict implementation by all schools in China, large, medium and small, and implements a system of hand responsibility, meaning that the principal of the school in question must take full responsibility for any problems found after the executive order is implemented, regardless of their size. Unlike previous administrative orders from the Ministry of Education, which were often a formality, this “12 negative list” is understood to have come from the top, and has been approved by Xi Jinping, requiring schools to strictly implement it.
In addition to the 12 “negative lists” that the Communist Party of China (CPC) has officially requested to be comprehensively cleaned up, the list not only targets those that are inconsistent with CPC documents and policies, those that slander and disrespect Party and state leaders, and those that smear, scandalize, and disparage Party, national, and military history, but also extends to Western reading materials, such as the world’s most famous literary works, leaving only Marxism-Leninism. The negative list includes other so-called “violation of religious policy”, “violation of national policy”, “promotion of individualism, neo-liberalism, historical nihilism, etc.”.
In this regard, Li Yuanhua, an associate professor at the College of Education Science of Capital Normal University, said in an interview that the Chinese Communist Party has been introducing similar policies in recent years, the early ones being the elimination of knowledge about Western religions from primary and secondary school textbooks.
Li Yuanhua said these are not new, the Ministry of Education has also issued a document to clean up books on religion, the main reason is that they do not conform to the Chinese Communist Party’s tyranny, or as long as the Chinese people can understand the real history, to understand the real world of these books have to be cleaned up, not to mention and the Chinese Communist Party’s ideological contradiction of universal values books, is considered by the Chinese Communist Party as the eyes of the toxin, must be removed.
Li Yuanhua pointed out that it is now the information age, and there are a large number of students from mainland China who have actual exchanges with overseas, and it is no longer the situation during the “Cultural Revolution” when the country’s doors were locked and only a few people could go overseas. This kind of frequent exchanges without borders, including tourism, study abroad, and mutual contacts and dispatches between Chinese and foreign companies, would be absolutely impossible for the CCP to achieve its goals in the same way as it did during the Cultural Revolution. However, the CCP may also be trying to make people show their allegiance through this very stupid and foolish approach.
Li Yuanhua analyzed the reason: the current rulers of the CCP are all grown up during the Cultural Revolution, and they are actually copying the practices of the Cultural Revolution, but they are not effective because the times have changed. At that time, there was really no communication with the world, just like North Korea now. Individuals who knew the truth didn’t dare to say anything for fear of losing their heads, but that’s not the case anymore.
Li Yuanhua said, want the people to be loyal to themselves, make this kind of measures is really shy to take the practice of the stage. In fact, the Chinese Communist Party has removed those things that are in the way of its totalitarian rule, such as the narrative of the Chinese Communist Party’s leaders and the history of China as described by the Chinese Communist Party, and these are the main things it has removed.
According to Li Yuanhua, Xi’s decision to send his daughter to study foreign languages and attend Harvard University in the United States is the opposite of his own orders. That is to say, when these leaders of the CCP are raising their own children, that’s his heart, that’s his true heart, and those measures are actually to maintain its totalitarian rule,” Li Yuanhua said. Because if you look at the so-called second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people overseas today, where are there so many second generation of officials and the second generation of rich people? That’s because they believe that the Western education system produces people who are more in line with normal people, while the Chinese Communist system cannot produce a real talent. So they send their children abroad in droves, hey, it means that …… is what has been said. But they actually even if it is contrary to the official document, which is more ……, just this comparison, it shows their hypocrisy even more.”
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