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China purges school libraries of 'Western veneration'

Communist Party doubles down on patriotic education as 100th anniversary nears

A new rule ordering the removal of certain books will affect Chinese students from high schools on down.   © Reuters
TSUKASA HADANO, Nikkei staff writer | China

BEIJING -- Chinese authorities have ordered primary and secondary schools to rid their libraries of books that may lead to veneration of the West at the expense of promoting patriotism.

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