Hong Kong Students to Learn New Historical Narrative: “Hong Kong Was Not a Colony”

Hong Kong—For a long time, the history learned by many schoolchildren around the world was that Hong Kong was a colony of the British Empire. But students in Hong Kong will soon be learning a different lesson: Hong Kong was not a colony.

As Hong Kong prepares to commemorate the 25th anniversary of its return to China on July 1, 1997, this narrative, which denies the British view of its relationship with Hong Kong, will be explicitly taught to Hong Kong high school students through at least four new textbooks to be introduced this fall. These textbooks are part of a broader campaign by China’s top leader Xi Jinping to comprehensively reform Hong Kong’s schools, “protect the minds of young people,” and cultivate loyal, patriotic citizens.

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