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On the campaign to weed out “Western” books from Chinese universities, I thought people on this list would be interested in Duowei News of March 17: http://china.dwnews.com/news/2015-03-17/59641642.html
Summary: The article is headlined “Yang Guiren talking the talk and walking the walk: Beijing higher education institutions investigate teaching materials from outside the border”, and says there has been a systematic survey of Western textbooks, so as to weed out those that promote Western ideas, and strengthen the control of others (presumably those that are Western but that do not convey any Western values, maybe in mathematics or something?). The survey, according to unnamed “professors at the universities,” began when forms were sent out to Beijing universities after March 9, asking them to identify and quantify any such books and return the forms by March 11. The forms had 13 questions including on how the school handled imported original books (purchase, photocopying, etc.); question 12 asks the professor filling it out whether there have ever been, “since 2012,” any instances of a professor himself assigning foreign original books without institutional approval, and if so, how this was handled and punished by the university.
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The report also comes with a cartoon with a university professor having his head suddenly grabbed and mouth covered by a bodiless brown hand reaching out from the inside the screen behind him, to silence him, while his textbooks, entitled “Constitutional politics” and “Democracy” are falling off his desk onto the floor, seemingly suggesting what may be the more precise targets of the campaign. The students in the classroom seem aghast, but they are wearing zi gan wu (自干五) headbands — someone else can better translate the term, but as I understand it this refers to a kind of “fifty-centers” (petty online propagandists paid small sums by the police to add comments online) who are not even paid but do it anyway, so, without a salary, they have to “bring their own food” (zi dai gan liang = zi gan).
ps. –about this MCLC list, I have begun to hesitate to post anything at all since my posts are often edited to put words in my mouth and then posted without running it by me, which I cannot understand, — and, worse, recently three(!) colleagues in three different countries separately told me they too were uncomfortable posting for the same reason. So, I have begun to think anything posted is actually an edited version of whatever they tried to say, not in fact what they said. –Other moderated lists will have a mechanism for author’s response to and final approval of editorial changes, which I think is better. I suggest that system is adopted.
Sincerely, Magnus Fiskesjö <magnus.fiskesjo at cornell.edu>
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袁贵仁“说到做到” 京高校摸底境外教材
[多维新闻] 2015-03-17 02:10:26
有媒体从“相关渠道”获知，日前北京多所高校对校内境外教材的使用情况，进行了紧急摸底，包括“985”“211”类部属高校，也包括一般市属高校、高职高专学校等各层次院校，调查涉及使用境外教材的学科、课程类比和占比、获得途径、审批管理、学校追责等。
今年1月29日，教育部长袁贵仁在教育部会议上提出，“加强对西方原版教材的使用管理，绝不能让传播西方价值观念的教材进入我们的课堂”，引发争议。
袁贵仁指出，要加强高校意识形态阵地管理，特别是加强教材建设和课堂讲坛管理。加强对西方原版教材的使用管理，绝不能让传播西方价值观念的教材进入我们的课堂；决不允许各种攻击诽谤党的领导、抹黑社会主义的言论在大学课堂出现；决不允许各种违反宪法和法律的言论在大学课堂蔓延；决不允许教师在课堂上发牢骚、泄怨气，把各种不良情绪传导给学生。
《北京青年报》报道指，3月9日前后，北京多所高校教务处紧急下发了《报送普通高等学校境外原版教材使用管理情况的通知》，要求院系任课老师完成《普通高等学校境外原版教材使用管理情况专题调研问卷》、《普通高等学校境外原版教材使用管理调查表》两份材料的填写。
一位收到问卷的老师向该报透露，自己是3月10日查收邮件时看到有关材料的，按照上面的要求，这名老师所在的院要在3月11日之前，报送材料，时间比较紧。
报道指，该名老师任教于北京某部属高校的人文社科专业。另一位市属高校法学院的老师也收到了学校教务处的通知。这位老师说：“收到了转发来的调研问卷和调查表，让大家依据这学期的教材使用情况，如实填写就好。”
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此前中共党媒大批部分高校教师“呲必中国”，不断地抹黑中国
据该报记者所见的《普通高等学校境外原版教材使用管理情况专题调研问卷》，里面有13个问题，包括使用境外原版教材的课程门数、占总数的比例、境外原版教材获取途径、学校对原版教材引进和使用的制度安排。
该问卷要求理工农医类和人文社科类本科，填写使用境外教材最多的3个院系名称，其中新闻传播学、政治学、经济学、社会学、历史学等专业的教材和教参单列为表格填写。
其中第12条问及“2012年以来，学校是否出现未经学校审批擅自使用境外原版教材的情况。若有，是如何处理和追责的？”
问卷上将学校类别分为：“中央部门所属”、“省属本科院校”、“高职高专学校”、“具有独立法人资格的中外合作办学机构”。
另一份《普通高等学校境外原版教材使用管理调查表》里，则对课堂使用原版教材进行更详细的摸底，如“课程类别必修或选修”、“用作教材或教参”、“购买、受赠或复印”等项目。
网上检索发现，《教育部关于报送普通高校境外原版教材使用管理情况的通知》，由教育部高等教育司于3月3日下发到各省区市的教育厅（教委），在3月上旬被挂到了吉林、安徽、贵州等省教育厅官网上，有的还附上了教育部通知原文。
通知称，为贯彻落实中办国办印发的《关于进一步加强和改进新形势下高校宣传思想工作的意见》，了解高校境外原版教材使用情况，研究制定新形势下进一步加强和改进境外原版教材的使用管理办法。要求各省区市教育厅（教委）选择本地5所有代表性的高校，一般应包括“985”高校或“211”高校、一般地方高校、民办高校等不同类型高校。这5所高校需报送各自的“境外原版教材使用管理情况专题调研问卷”和一份调查表，每校一套。
除了高校要交问卷和表格，各省区市教育厅（教委）也要提交一份调研分析报告，内容是汇总分析本地高校境外原版教材使用管理的总体情况、取得的成绩和效果、存在的问题。 “报告要全面客观、实事求是，要用具体数据说明，并提供典型案例。”按照教育部的要求，各省区市要在3月13日前将上述内容发送到教育部高教司。
(那了 编辑)
by denton.2 at osu.edu on March 18, 2015
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