Nothing wrong with school history textbooks reflecting Chinese view of Hong Kong handover, Carrie Lam says
Chief executive says people are overreacting to government-appointed panel’s opposition to description of Hong Kong’s 1997 shift from British to Chinese rule in school textbook
There is nothing wrong in a government-appointed committee wanting school history textbooks to be more precise in the description of Hong Kong’s return to China in 1997, and people should not overreact to these efforts, the city’s leader said on Tuesday.
Other phrases of concern for the committee in secondary school Chinese history textbooks included “Hong Kong is located south of China” and “the Chinese Communist Party’s one-party rule”.
The committee’s findings mean any future book using the phrases would be unlikely to make the Education Bureau’s recommended reading list.
“China has never handed Hong Kong’s sovereignty to others,” Lam said, adding that it was more accurate to say China “resumed sovereignty” over Hong Kong.