On December 11, a news posted by TASS successfully attracted the attention of the public. The Russian "Education" publishing house revised the history book to delete the sentence "Russia invaded the Chinese Amur region." The Amur Oblast here refers to the unequal treaty signed between China and Russia in 1858, which was ceded to Russia by the Qing government. Located in the north of Heilongjiang And south of the Waixing'an Mountains, it covers an area of 363,700 square kilometers and has a population of 880,000.
On December 6, according to local media reports in Blagoveshchensk (Highland Bubble), a citizen inadvertently looked at his child's eighth-grade history textbook, which wrote that Russia had invaded China's Amur region during the Second Opium War, which made him very angry, so he contacted the media. He thought that the wording was inappropriate, how could the child know that they lived in an aggressive place? And the book does not explain the signing of the treaty.
In response, an associate professor of history at Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University said: "The wording does sound harsh and not so patriotic, but in the nineteenth century, this territory was indeed ruled by China." China was weak during the Second Opium War, and Russia took advantage of this. He added that from the perspective of Western historians, Russia, like other European countries, encroached on qing territory. But in Russia, the interpretation of this incident is different, and we do not call ourselves aggressors. Because aggression is often accompanied by force, the term присоединение (join) was used in previous textbooks instead of захват (encroachment).
I thought that this matter had passed, but I did not expect that 5 days later, the news came that the publishing house had revised the history book, deleted the harsh sentence in the book, and the newly published history book would not have this sentence.
The principal of the Blagoveshchensk First Secondary School said: "Our secondary school attaches great importance to the history of the Amur region and the Far East, and students regularly visit the village of Albazino, which is the archaeological excavation site of the first Russian settlement on the Amur River. Teachers are there to explain the content in the textbook in the right light. ”
Regarding what to do with the old history books, the principal of the First Secondary School in Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast, who uses the textbook, said, "At present, we have not planned to replace the new book, we have been using this textbook since 2014, but this set of textbooks is used as a supplementary textbook, so far we have not received complaints and complaints from parents." ”
Russian primary and secondary school textbooks are somewhat different from China's, their textbooks are quite beautifully printed and bound, but they need to be reused, and students borrow textbooks from the school library every semester and return them after the end of the semester. A set of teaching materials may be used for many years. Russian books are really expensive, if you want to change books, it is still a lot of money.....