Media Reporters Appear in College Classes The Party Aims to “Clean up” Colleges?

• published: 17 Nov 2014
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Follow us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/cnforbiddennews Like us on FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/chinaforbiddennews Recently, “Liaoning Daily”, the provincial state-run newspaper, headlined a public letter addressed to all college teachers in China. It says it’s a severe phenomenon that college teachers “insult motherland”. “China Youth Daily” supported “Liaoning Daily” and commented that “people insult the motherland on internet and in society, and the source of negative emotion is college teachers.” It’s worried that it might be a forerunner for the party to “clean up” colleges and “reform” intellectuals. On Nov 4, “Liaoning Daily” headline news published an article “Teacher, Please Stop Talking about China in This Way”, which covered 4 full pages of the newspaper. It said that the newspaper collected more than 300 stories on “How Should China Be Discussed in College Classes”. One comment from a college student drew the editor’s attention. The student said: “I don’t know when it became a fashion to bad-mouth China and to criticize society.” “Liaoning Daily” stated they investigated more than 2 months inside and outside Liaoning Province, held 7 symposiums, and audited more than 100 classes in the colleges located in Shenyang Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhai and Guangzhou. “Liaoning Daily” summarized their 130,000-words class notes into 3 categories of problems. First category is: teachers talk about the “private information” of Marx & Engles and teach the theories in a joking way because of the lack of consensus on the theories. Second one is: they admire Western “Separation of the Three Powers” and question the party’s critical policies, corruption and justice because of the lack consensus on politics. Third one is: some teachers think that it’s a demonstration of individuality if they say “I am not going to join the communist party” because of the lack of consensus on emotionality. Sun Wenkuang, retired professor of Shangdong University, pointed out that the party aims to control college teaching content for a while, and even tries to censor teachers’ notes. The way they do it is the same as the brain-washing education from official media. They only gloss over the party instead of exposing the dark side of society. Sun Wenguang: “Many teachers have their own political standpoints. They have their own thoughts. However, it’s too risky if they turn their thoughts into words. Therefore, they talk about their ideas in classes.” Sun Wenguang said students actually like those viewpoints that aren’t consistent with office news. Zhu Xinxin, freelance writer and member of Independent Chinese PEN Center, stated that the party has been dedicated to cultural dictatorship, which has smothered China’s education. Therefore, students have lost their ability to think independently and social evils have been rampant. Zhu Xinxin: “It’s a signal to college education. It’s a signal to further control college education. It aims to clean out those teachers with democratic ideology and humanity. Thus, cultural dictatorship can fill up college education.” Hong Kong “Ming Pao” disclosed Liaoning provincial authorities actually gave permission to “Liaoning Daily” to perform the task. The person in charge of the public letter used to be Deputy Secretary of Liaoning Province College Working Committee and Deputy Director of Liaoning Provincial Department of Education. Once “Liaoning Daily” published the public letter, it’s strongly supported by other state-run media. “China Youth Daily” wrote an article titled “Scolding China Shouldn’t Be Required in Class”. It also said that people insult “motherland” on internet and in society, and the source of negative emotion are college teachers. Mr Feng, a college teacher from Xian, stated that the dark side of society is not caused by teachers but by the governors. The concept of “motherland” in state-run media is different from the understanding of college teachers. “Motherland” has existed for thousands of years, which is obviously not true of the party. Mr. Feng: “When the party’s ideology and behavior is consistent with the interest of the Motherland, we will support it and intellectuals will support it. However, if the party is undermining the interests of the people and our Motherland, It’s a demonstration of patriotism if we point out its mistakes.” Based on insider information, “Ming Pao” disclosed that it might cause a movement in colleges with approval from the party authorities after the public letter was published. Recently, Professor Wang Shoutian, 《神韵》2014世界巡演新亮点 http://www.ShenYunPerformingArts.org/