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China can censor scholars publishing in China, but it cannot directly censor scholars publishing outside. Hence the phenomenon in this article: visa bans and o
by jpatokal 13y ago
China can censor scholars publishing in China, but it cannot directly censor scholars publishing outside. Hence the phenomenon in this article: visa bans and other methods of pressure that aim at getting scholars to censor themselves.
And re: Japan, I'm not aware of Japanese authorities denying visas to academics on the basis of their beliefs. There's no comparable issue here anyway: Japanese textbooks do cover Japanese war crimes in detail, with denialists a marginal fringe, while denial of the Tiananmen massacre (etc) is official PRC state policy.
- e12e 13y ago> Japanese textbooks do cover Japanese war crimes in detail, with denialists a marginal fringe While I agree that denialists might be marginal, I wasn't aware that textbooks cover war crimes "in detail"? My only personal experience is as an exchange student to Fukuoka in 96-97 -- and there certainly wasn't much "detailed" coverage of Japanese war crimes in second year of high school as I recall. But that's a few years ago now, maybe the curriculum has been updated?
- jpatokal 13y agoWell, that's going to depend on how much detail you expected: Japan has several thousand years of history and a dozen years to teach it all to each child, with 50+ approved textbooks to choose from.