2025-08-15
26 分钟Cutting through an overload of information to get to the heart of the story.
This is The Point.
August the 15th marks the 80th anniversary of Japan's announcement of its unconditional surrender in World War II.
Yet many people in Taiwan don't know the war's true history.
That's because textbooks place a decidedly pro-Japanese spin on things,
right down to the wording, such as replacing Japanese occupation with Japanese governance.
And it doesn't stop here.
Over the past three decades,
there has been sweeping changes to the educational curriculum in an effort to sever cultural connections with the mainland.
are speaking out welcome to the special edition of the point with me lu xin coming to you from beijing i sat down with chinese teacher okui chi one of the most outspoken critics against these efforts she's been a high school teacher of chinese language and literature in taiwan for 30 years First of all,
could you use one sentence to introduce yourself to our audience?
I'm someone who carries on orthodox Chinese culture and I'm committed to passing it on.
In what context are you saying that?
Because Chinese culture has undergone many changes throughout its long history,
it presents in many different forms.
Some people who mistake the drags of tradition for a culture itself,
which I believe is a misunderstanding of our traditional culture.
We cannot deny that throughout history, society has gone through negative situations,
and sometimes those situations lasted for quite a while.
However, if we take those negative phenomena during those periods as culture itself,