{"id":24420,"date":"2020-11-03T15:23:22","date_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/03\/china-changes-school-curriculum-to-reflect-beijings-positive-covid-narrative"},"modified":"2020-11-03T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-03T06:23:22","slug":"china-changes-school-curriculum-to-reflect-beijings-positive-covid-narrative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=24420","title":{"rendered":"China changes school curriculum to reflect Beijing&#8217;s positive Covid narrative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Content added to classes will say the state \u2018aways put the life and safety of its people first\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Chinese government-endorsed content about the pandemic and the \u201cfighting spirit\u201d of the country\u2019s response will be added to school curriculum, the country\u2019s ministry of education has said, in a move to enshrine the country\u2019s narrative of success against the virus.<\/p>\n<p>The content will be added to elementary and middle school classes in biology, health and physical education, history, and literature, and will \u201chelp students understand the basic fact that the Party and the state always put the life and safety of its people first\u201d, the ministry said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/nov\/03\/china-changes-school-curriculum-to-reflect-beijings-positive-covid-narrative\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Content added to classes will say the state \u2018aways put the life and safety of its people first\u2019Coronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageChinese government-endorsed content about the pandemic and the \u201cfighting spirit\u201d of the country\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1667,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,1066,914,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-science"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24430,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24420\/revisions\/24430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}