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Article: HONG KONG STUDENTS BRACING FOR CHINESE REVISIONIST HISTORY.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- April 7, 1997
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Change, historic and ordinary, awaits Hong Kong as Chinese rule approaches. British rule is ending. Colonial privilege, attitudes and instincts are giving way to China's desires and demands.
The vocabulary and world view of colonialism are fading - from Hong Kong's classrooms, even from the sporting ground.
Sun Yat-sen, the first Chinese revolutionary of the century, never, ever, cooperated with warlords, it now appears.
Badgers and foxes, the fauna of the shires, are passe. Pandas and golden monkeys are to be preferred.
No one is to refer to the governor any more; he's being replaced by a chief executive.
And forget the ...