【Exclusive: China ‘pressured’ UK publisher to edit Taiwan reference in GCSE textbook】
The Chinese embassy in London has ‘pressured’ a publisher to redact Taiwan’s official name from a widely-used GCSE Chinese textbook, the Chaser News can reveal.
A reference to “Republic of China” — the island’s formal designation under its constitution — in a Taiwan-themed chapter was removed by the UK-based publisher Dragons Teaching after Chinese officials lodged a complaint in 2018.
The phrase appeared in a Chinese-language excerpt about the Yangmingshan National Park, originally described as “the Republic of China’s third national park” in the 2016 first edition of the exam board-approved AQA GCSE Chinese Textbook 1......
The full article link
https://thechasernews.co.uk/china-pressured-uk-publisher/
中文報道:
【追獨家】中國駐英使館施壓 出版社刪教科書「中華民國」字眼 作者：遺憾但不敢不從
https://thechasernews.co.uk/中國駐英使館施壓-出版社刪教科書中華民國字眼/
#GCSEChinese #GCSE #Chineseembassy #AQA #UK #China #Dragonsteaching #thechaser
The Chinese embassy in London has ‘pressured’ a publisher to redact Taiwan’s official name from a widely-used GCSE Chinese textbook, the Chaser News can reveal.
A reference to “Republic of China” — the island’s formal designation under its constitution — in a Taiwan-themed chapter was removed by the UK-based publisher Dragons Teaching after Chinese officials lodged a complaint in 2018.
The phrase appeared in a Chinese-language excerpt about the Yangmingshan National Park, originally described as “the Republic of China’s third national park” in the 2016 first edition of the exam board-approved AQA GCSE Chinese Textbook 1......
The full article link
https://thechasernews.co.uk/china-pressured-uk-publisher/
中文報道:
【追獨家】中國駐英使館施壓 出版社刪教科書「中華民國」字眼 作者：遺憾但不敢不從
https://thechasernews.co.uk/中國駐英使館施壓-出版社刪教科書中華民國字眼/
#GCSEChinese #GCSE #Chineseembassy #AQA #UK #China #Dragonsteaching #thechaser