According to Taiwan media "China Times News Network" and "United News Network" reported on January 4, the "Diaoyutai Education Association" (hereinafter referred to as the "Diaoyu Tai") education association (hereinafter referred to as the "Diaoyu Tai") education in the syllabus and textbooks held a symposium on the same day, focusing on Taiwan's current curriculum and the textbook education under the guidance, Taiwan's next generation will be educated to become people who lack a sense of history and lose their sense of territorial sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands. This paper discusses and warns about the hidden crisis of sovereignty education on the Diaoyu Islands.
At the forum, Ou Guizhi, a Chinese teacher at Taipei Municipal No. 1 Girls' High School (referred to as Beijing No. 1 Girls' High School), who has recently become popular for bombarding the DPP authorities' education policy and the fact that the "de-sinicization syllabus" is a "shameless syllabus," also spoke on this issue, and she asked DPP candidate Lai Qingde "what he thinks about the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands" and asked him to explain clearly.
Au shared a case in which she once designed an assignment related to "Baoyu literature", but a student collected information from the Internet and wrote a shocking answer such as "The Diaoyu Islands are Japanese". At the scene, she strongly urged the DPP authorities to clearly explain to the public: "Who exactly does the Diaoyu Dao belong to?"
Ou Guizhi's speech is from "United News Network"
Historically, it is indisputable that China was the first to discover, name and use the Diaoyu Islands. Similarly, China has indisputable territorial sovereignty over the Diaoyu Islands.
According to reports, the "Diaoyu Education Association" has spent two years exploring the "108 syllabus" for "de-sinicization" on the island and the curriculum content of various versions of textbooks on Diaoyu Dao and other Chinese territories, and has found six major problems, including: "oversimplification, abandonment of sovereignty, de-history, no fishing/fishing, anti-China ideology, and flattening of knowledge."
On the same day, Au Guizhi directly challenged DPP candidate Lai Qingde at the scene, saying that he seemed to be very concerned about the so-called "sovereignty concessions" at the election and political meetings and debates, "So what do you think about the sovereignty of Diaoyu Dao?" "Because this is a very specific issue related to China's territorial sovereignty, but I have not heard a single word [from Lai Qingde] about Diaoyu Dao." ”
"In the '108 syllabus' with congenital defects, history is constructed based on topics, but there is no discussion about Diaoyu Dao in the textbooks, and there is no discussion about the fishing rights, the right to subsistence, and the so-called 'dignity' of fishermen's rights and interests in civic textbooks that emphasize civic literacy. It is very difficult for the teacher to introduce the authors of the 'Bao Yu', who caused it?"
Au Guizhi pointed out: "Under the guidance of the ('de-sinicization') syllabus, the narrative of Taiwan's history and geography is a major omission, and the DPP, which seems to care about 'sovereignty and dignity,' could you please tell us that you intend to cede sovereignty and fishing rights to the Diaoyu Islands to Japan? Can our statements and propositions on sovereignty not have different standards because of different targets? Once again, we strongly appeal to the DPP to distinguish with a clean and clean mind who the Diaoyu Dao belongs to? Let us truly realize that the Diaoyu Islands belong to us. ”
A Chinese teacher for more than 30 years at Beiyi Girls' High School, one of the best high schools on the island of Taiwan, Au became popular last December for a video of a speech bombarding the education policies of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) authorities, which went viral on social media.
In the video, Ou Guizhi criticized and pointed out that the education reform on the island over the years has always been under the guidance of the so-called "de-sinicization" principle, so that schools, teachers and students at all levels have fallen into the increasingly dark abyss of education, "In Zhang Ailing's words, it is to go to a place where there is no light." ”
Regarding the fact that the "108 syllabus" launched by Taiwan's education department in 2019 was heavily deleted from classical Chinese, she said that classical Chinese can not only improve language ability, but also contain a high philosophy of life. "Why can someone be so confused because of ideology and logic to the point that it is unbelievable?"
For example, Ou Guizhi said that the 2019 syllabus deleted the "Honest Shame" by Gu Yanwu, a thinker in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and students no longer had the opportunity to think about why "the shamelessness of scholars is a national shame", and they can no longer understand "shame is the distinction between innocence and innocence", "We watch the news every day, and we see so many innocent politicians jumping off the beam, flaunting their might, eating and drinking spicy food there, how can students' values not be confused, and how can the concept of right and wrong not be chaotic? So this is a 'shameless' syllabus." ”
"China Times News Network" pointed out that it was Ou Guizhi's recent remarks criticizing the "108 syllabus" as a "shameless syllabus" that not only aroused heated discussions on the island, but also aroused all walks of life to begin to care about education issues.
Chen Meixia, executive director of the "Diaoyu Education Association," also pointed out at a forum on 4 January that the "108 syllabus" does not mention the Diaoyu Dao archipelago or the Diaoyu Dao issue, for example, the primary school social textbook is limited to five characters and does not go into detail; the textbook also lacks an explanation of how China claims sovereignty over the Diaoyu Dao, and has lost its sovereign stance, and even appears in the textbook the phrase "Senkaku Islands," which is an illegal name for Japan's forcible occupation of the Diaoyu Dao, and textbooks should not list it without criticism.
Chen Meixia said that the island's high school history textbook actually appeared that "the Diaoyu Islands may be ours or Japan's." This is an overly neutral attitude toward territorial sovereignty. In addition, the history textbooks of high schools on the island even mention that the "Cairo Declaration" and the "Potsdam Proclamation" are informal treaties, which in turn will affect the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands.
Data map: "Fishing people" on the island of Taiwan Picture from "United News Network"
In September 2019, a syllabus that was widely questioned by the Taiwanese people was formulated and officially implemented by the DPP authorities, because of its "de-sinicization" in language, history and other subjects, and was called a "Taiwan independence" syllabus by public opinion on the island.
In the Chinese syllabus, many Taiwanese teachers and scholars have been saddened by the deletion of a large number of classical Chinese texts that represent the memory of Chinese culture and the deep roots of the language. In the history syllabus, the historical fact that "Taiwan has been a part of China since ancient times" has been replaced by the "concentric circle of Taiwan independence historical view" of "de-Sinicization." The media on the island stressed that the current history syllabus not only separates Taiwan history from Chinese history, but also further replaces Chinese history with East Asian history, and equates Chinese history with "foreign history" through the narrative structure of "Taiwan-East Asia-World."
In addition, the syllabus also deals with Chinese history in "fragments", reducing the length of Chinese history as much as possible and making it nihilistic. Duan Xinyi, secretary general of the "Taiwan Association for the Promotion of Chinese Language Education," said that the history of junior high schools on the island only uses one unit to introduce the content of the 3,000-year history from the Shang and Zhou dynasties to the Sui, Tang, Song, and Yuan dynasties, and only one unit introduces the contents of the Ming and Qing dynasties.
"In the face of the trend of learning XiChinese all over the world, today's education policy of the DPP authorities is ignorant and ruthless to cut off the cultural meridians" As Ou Guizhi said before: "The 'de-sinicization' syllabus is heinous and harmful for life, and it will definitely be left behind for 10,000 years!"
Source: Observer.com