Tag: Hong Kong textbooks

‘Hong Kong Was Never a Colony’ Disrupts Historical Discourse

Commentary “Hong Kong was never a colony,” as asserted in some new Hong Kong textbooks, is as absurd as saying “the People’s Republic of China is not a country.” In order to uproot Hong Kong independence, textbooks are asked to distort history. However, history is like sedimentary rock, with sand and gravel accumulating layer by…


Hong Kong Legislative Council Attempts to Conceal Infamous Past

There are further signs the CCP continues to purge Hong Kong of its colonial past. After the Hong Kong government changed textbook contents, the Legislative Council website follows in unison, albeit a bit hastily. Lately the website is found to have removed the entire page of all recorded history of the Legislative Council, which had…


‘Hong Kong Was Not a Colony?’ Scholar Criticizes CCP for Distorting History

Four of six Citizenship and Social Development textbooks submitted for review by the Hong Kong Education Bureau stated that “Hong Kong was not a former colony,” Hong Kong media Ming Pai Daily News recently revealed. Hong Kong historian Hans Yeung Wing-yu believes that this statement is not based on historical facts. In his view: “The…