New textbooks contend the territory was never a British colony. The reason: China never recognized the treaties that ceded it to Britain.
An invigilator distributes papers to students taking the Hong Kong Diploma of Secondary Education exams on April 22, 2022 in Hong Kong.
As Beijing's grip on Hong Kong has tightened in the wake of huge anti-government protests in 2019, re-vamping education has been a focus. The SCMP says the new class is an overhauled version of a liberal studies course that pro-Beijing politicians blamed for"radicalizing youth". Despite re-writing textbooks, Hong Kong's colonial history that stretched for more than a century and a half may be hard to erase in the territory.
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