Elsie Tu's letter ("Critics of new subject are so intolerant", September 6) makes interesting reading. However, I'm not sure whether Mrs Tu, or I, as foreigners should be commenting on what is after all a local Chinese matter.
As a young student in England, she says she was brainwashed, which may be correct. This was many years ago.
These days, British people are inclined to be cynical and not easily persuaded by politicians.
In China, this is happening very slowly.
People are taught about past Japanese atrocities and quite rightly so, but not about the horrors of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. Young mainlanders also know nothing about the Tiananmen Square atrocity. They have been brainwashed. It seems what the Hong Kong demonstrators were saying is teach the whole story, not just the parts the politicians want.
Mrs Tu says that as a result of British brainwashing, people wept at the thought of the Hong Kong handover to China in 1997.