Japanese Universities Use Liu Xiaobo’s "Charter 08" as Chinese Teaching Material
In 2019, the Education Bureau of Hong Kong initiated a “professional consultancy service” for senior secondary curriculum Liberal Studies text books. The public raised doubts that the books were actually handed over for censorship. Recently, six publishers has published revised textbooks, in which components pertaining to political contents such as the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen incident were “river crabbed” (a euphemism for censorship in China).
On the other hand, Japanese universities have been adopting Liu Xiaobo’s written work "Charter 08" as a Chinese teaching material.
Nishinippon Shimbun reported that some universities in Japan have been using Charter 08, written by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese teaching material. The teaching material, entitled Learning Quality Chinese through Charter 08, was published by a Japanese publisher last year on the 30th Anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen incident. The publication makes use of the full text of Charter 08 and includes a Japanese translation, grammar explanations, exercises and a brief description of the history of social movements in China.
Ken Suzuki, professor of law at Meiji University, has been using the book to teach since fall last year. He said, “Through studying constitutional law, students can learn standard Chinese syntax. Charter 08 is a critique on the present state of China, so it gives students an idea of China’s current condition too.” The report added that besides Meiji University, many universities in Kansai also used this book as a teaching material for Chinese language this year. Some of these universities initially planned to use books published in China, but changed to Charter 08 when the books could not be posted to Japan due to the epidemic.
Source: Stand News #Aug20
#Charter08 #LiuXiaobo #Meijiuniversity #Japan
#LiberalStudies #Textbook
In 2019, the Education Bureau of Hong Kong initiated a “professional consultancy service” for senior secondary curriculum Liberal Studies text books. The public raised doubts that the books were actually handed over for censorship. Recently, six publishers has published revised textbooks, in which components pertaining to political contents such as the 1989 June 4th Tiananmen incident were “river crabbed” (a euphemism for censorship in China).
On the other hand, Japanese universities have been adopting Liu Xiaobo’s written work "Charter 08" as a Chinese teaching material.
Nishinippon Shimbun reported that some universities in Japan have been using Charter 08, written by the late Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, as a Chinese teaching material. The teaching material, entitled Learning Quality Chinese through Charter 08, was published by a Japanese publisher last year on the 30th Anniversary of June 4th Tiananmen incident. The publication makes use of the full text of Charter 08 and includes a Japanese translation, grammar explanations, exercises and a brief description of the history of social movements in China.
Ken Suzuki, professor of law at Meiji University, has been using the book to teach since fall last year. He said, “Through studying constitutional law, students can learn standard Chinese syntax. Charter 08 is a critique on the present state of China, so it gives students an idea of China’s current condition too.” The report added that besides Meiji University, many universities in Kansai also used this book as a teaching material for Chinese language this year. Some of these universities initially planned to use books published in China, but changed to Charter 08 when the books could not be posted to Japan due to the epidemic.
Source: Stand News #Aug20
#Charter08 #LiuXiaobo #Meijiuniversity #Japan
#LiberalStudies #Textbook
Eight Hong Kong Exiled Activists Launched the "2021 Hong Kong Charter" to prevent the Hong Kong protest bubble.
On 14 March, 2021, diasporic Hong Kong activists, including Nathan Law Kwun-Chung, Ted Hui Chi-Fung and Brian Leung Kai-ping, issued the "2021 Hong Kong Charter", suggesting the protest direction for overseas Hong Kongers.
The Charter initiators stated at their press conference about the probability of the Hong Kong overseas protest bubble. Thus, they would like to unite Hong Kongers through this Charter.
In the press conference, Brian Leung said that Hong Kongers continued uttering to the world since 2019, but Hong Kongers can no longer speak freely. They should connect global protesters networks, understand local people's lives and find out channels to continue communicating with the world. The Charter includes the belief of Hong Kongers overseas and advocating the protest direction at different levels which were divided into three parts, Hong Kong, China and International.
The "2021 Hong Kong Charter" is led by Nathan Law Kwun-Chung, Sunny Cheung Kwan-yang, Ted Hui Chi-Fung, Brian Leung Kai-Ping, Glacier Kwong Chung-Ching, Ray Wong Toi-Yeung and Baggio Leung Chung-Hang.
The Charter states that Hong Kongers have started fighting for a democratic system since the 1980s. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) nature, a one-party system, remains unchanged. After breaching Sino-British Joint Declaration repeatedly, one-country-two-systems were declared to be dead. This Charter aims to unite overseas Hong Kongers and cohere their power at the international level to prepare for the protest.
In the press conference, Sunny Cheung mentioned that many different democracy movements had initiated Charters in the past, such as Nobel Peace Prize Liu Xiaobo launched "Charter 08". So, He would record Hong Kongers' voices through this Charter.
Source: Stand News #Mar15
https://bit.ly/3qXbSmP
#ExiledHongKongers #NathanLaw #TedHui #SunnyCheung #GlacierKwong #BrianLeung #RayWong #BaggioLeung #Charter #2021HKCharter #Charter08
On 14 March, 2021, diasporic Hong Kong activists, including Nathan Law Kwun-Chung, Ted Hui Chi-Fung and Brian Leung Kai-ping, issued the "2021 Hong Kong Charter", suggesting the protest direction for overseas Hong Kongers.
The Charter initiators stated at their press conference about the probability of the Hong Kong overseas protest bubble. Thus, they would like to unite Hong Kongers through this Charter.
In the press conference, Brian Leung said that Hong Kongers continued uttering to the world since 2019, but Hong Kongers can no longer speak freely. They should connect global protesters networks, understand local people's lives and find out channels to continue communicating with the world. The Charter includes the belief of Hong Kongers overseas and advocating the protest direction at different levels which were divided into three parts, Hong Kong, China and International.
The "2021 Hong Kong Charter" is led by Nathan Law Kwun-Chung, Sunny Cheung Kwan-yang, Ted Hui Chi-Fung, Brian Leung Kai-Ping, Glacier Kwong Chung-Ching, Ray Wong Toi-Yeung and Baggio Leung Chung-Hang.
The Charter states that Hong Kongers have started fighting for a democratic system since the 1980s. Nevertheless, the Chinese Communist Party (#CCP) nature, a one-party system, remains unchanged. After breaching Sino-British Joint Declaration repeatedly, one-country-two-systems were declared to be dead. This Charter aims to unite overseas Hong Kongers and cohere their power at the international level to prepare for the protest.
In the press conference, Sunny Cheung mentioned that many different democracy movements had initiated Charters in the past, such as Nobel Peace Prize Liu Xiaobo launched "Charter 08". So, He would record Hong Kongers' voices through this Charter.
Source: Stand News #Mar15
https://bit.ly/3qXbSmP
#ExiledHongKongers #NathanLaw #TedHui #SunnyCheung #GlacierKwong #BrianLeung #RayWong #BaggioLeung #Charter #2021HKCharter #Charter08