does world history get taught at all in middle school in China?
Not while I was in school. And history often got kicked to the curb for more math/physics/chem craming.
Though, I was also under the impression that at least archaeology is a popular degree to pursue, if only due to the large amount of history buried underground everywhere in China. Or, does that degree only require credentials in bio/chem/etc. and not actually history?
There's been a push for archeology, but that's in higher education (aka graduate level stuff) because current admin is obsessed with finding evidence of pre-Shang government. Current writing documentation is from Shang dynasty, and there's pottery and evidence of cities existing pre-Shang, but not enough to establish the existence of state institutions (as opposed to tribal governance). Because...politics.
People who support Qin over Han, Sui over Tang
To be completely fair, this might be a backlash towards the Han-Tang glorification agenda from...well, Han dynasty... The documents dug up from Qin era (stuff that survived the Han purge) revealed quite a bit of differing narrative. Like, you can't really ding 秦始皇 for depleting 1/7 of the population fighting nomads when 汉武帝 depleted 1/5 of the total population during his reign. As for the issue of 李世民 and re-writing history books, I haven't looked into it very much but from what I understand that seems to be the academic consensus. But again, not really my area of expertise, but those criticisms aren't coming from kooks.
魏晋南北朝 was a romantic era to live in
Yeah, I've got nothing. Those were shit times for everyone involved. Blame 琅琊榜 for being too popular.
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Date: 2025-03-29 10:25 am (UTC)Not while I was in school. And history often got kicked to the curb for more math/physics/chem craming.
There's been a push for archeology, but that's in higher education (aka graduate level stuff) because current admin is obsessed with finding evidence of pre-Shang government. Current writing documentation is from Shang dynasty, and there's pottery and evidence of cities existing pre-Shang, but not enough to establish the existence of state institutions (as opposed to tribal governance). Because...politics.
To be completely fair, this might be a backlash towards the Han-Tang glorification agenda from...well, Han dynasty... The documents dug up from Qin era (stuff that survived the Han purge) revealed quite a bit of differing narrative. Like, you can't really ding 秦始皇 for depleting 1/7 of the population fighting nomads when 汉武帝 depleted 1/5 of the total population during his reign. As for the issue of 李世民 and re-writing history books, I haven't looked into it very much but from what I understand that seems to be the academic consensus. But again, not really my area of expertise, but those criticisms aren't coming from kooks.
Yeah, I've got nothing. Those were shit times for everyone involved. Blame 琅琊榜 for being too popular.