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China Warns Against ‘Western Values’ in Imported Textbooks

30sino-texts01-tmagArticleBy CHRIS BUCKLEY JANUARY 30, 2015 6:16 AM January 30, 2015 6:16 am

Students at Renmin University in Beijing. Education officials have warned against teaching materials that might promote Western values.Credit Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times

In law school at Peking University in the late 1970s, Li Keqiang, now China’s premier, was an avid student of English and helped translate texts that gave his generation its first, exhilarating exposure to Western legal ideals after the death of Mao. Continue reading