Chinese Schools remove Politically Incorrect Books.

installing patriotism and ideological purity in the education system.

Xi Jinping 习近平 President of the People's Republic of China 

As schools reopened in China after the COVID-19 outbreak, they have thrown themselves into a nationwide exercise to remove books deemed politically incorrect, deepening Chinese President Xi Jinping’s push to instil patriotism and ideological purity in the education system.¹

The idea is to emphasize the legitimacy of the Communist Party's rule while ramping up criticism of Western thought. ²

1. Wu Huizhong, 2020 “In echo of Mao era, China's schools in book-cleansing drive.” Reuters, July 9.

2. Tsukasa Hadano, April 18, 2021. “China purges school libraries of 'Western veneration'“ Nikkei Asia.