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A practical handbook for beating street vendors

A chengguan textbook surfaces online. Highlights: how to beat someone without drawing blood.

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Controversy over a history text

Zhou Yumin (周育民) complains about errors in Essentials of Modern Chinese History (中国近现代史纲要).

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Controversy over Chinese textbook revisions

Translation of a forum rant against a new Chinese history textbook. some responses to that rant, and a Phoenix Weekly article on China’s new historicism in the form of a new Shanghai history textbook.

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The “textbook problem” – Ye Yonglie on Cultural Revolution education

Chinese writer Ye Yonglie (叶永烈) on the Cultural Revolution (文化大革命).

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A Joint Approach to History

The joint Korean-Japanese-Chinese history textbook, 东亚三国的近现代史, published by Social Sciences Academic Press, is reviewed by Danwei.

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Japanese history textbooks raise anger in Asia

Japan’s official adoption of a new edition of history textbooks Tuesday has raised anger in Korea and China.

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