Hong Kong history exam setter quits months after controversy raged over question on Japan’s relationship with China
- Hans Yeung Wing-yu has resigned as an assessment development manager at the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority
- Yeung was also targeted by pro-Beijing media over Facebook posts related to Japanese occupation during second world war
A Hong Kong exam authorities employee involved in the setting of history public exam papers has resigned three months after a controversial question was scrapped, the Post has learned.
Hans Yeung Wing-yu, a history subject assessment development manager at the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA), had also been accused by pro-Beijing media outlets over “inappropriate comments” made on his private Facebook account, just a day before the controversy over the history question unfolded in May.
The question had asked students whether Japan did “more good than harm to China” in the first half of the 20th century.
Yeung’s decision to quit was the third resignation by an HKEAA employee related to accusations made by pro-Beijing media, and the history question.
One of Yeung's posts, written in Chinese, reportedly said: “If there was no Japanese occupation, would there be a new China? Have you forgotten your origins?”