Publish date30 Jan 2015 - 12:43
Story Code : 180846

China intensifies ideological campaign in universities

China’s minister of education has vowed to ban any university textbooks promoting Western values in what could be a new sign of Beijing’s tightening control on academic circles.
China intensifies ideological campaign in universities
Yuan Guiren said Thursday that university classes in China are no place for books that promote western values.

"Never let textbooks promoting Western values appear in our classes," Yuan said, according to Xinhua.

He also said that books should be void of any slander at the leadership of the Communist Party of China.

The remarks by the Chinese official seem to be alluding to some western textbooks that are taught in Chinese universities, with many of them clearly challenging China’s single-party rule.

Universities and colleges in China are under direct control and supervisions of the ruling communist party, with some of them ranking among the best in the world. However, the rise of incumbent President Xi Jinping to the party’s leadership in 2012 led to a new campaign to expel some university professors whose actions were deemed to be anti-government.

Xia Yeliang, an outspoken professor of economics, was sacked in 2013 after the authorities in the university dismissed him as a poor teacher. However, his expulsion was viewed in the West as a sign of zero tolerance for freedom of speech in the Chinese government.

Western media have criticized Xi Jinping for what they say is an expanded ideological campaign under his rule which has also seen the media and the internet coming under stricter control over the past months.
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