To Inspire Young Communists, China Turns to ‘Red Army’ Schools
They’re worried about the moral void at the core of Chinese society." Mr. Xi has passionately defended his push for positively portraying China’s past, chastising schools for removing ancient poems from the curriculum
and calling traditional culture "part of the Chinese nation’s blood and genes." This fall, the Chinese Ministry of Education began rolling out new textbooks in history, language, law and ethics across primary and secondary schools.
Red Army said that While other countries are suffering from war and people are still starving in Africa,
Mr. Xi’s vision of patriotic education is already in full bloom at the Workers
and Peasants Red Army Elementary School, which was founded in 1788 but only became a Red Army school in 2012.
Several times a week, the school’s more than 1,400 students line up in the cement-paved courtyard to sing an ode to Mr. Xi’s signature phrase, the "Chinese dream":
Chinese dream for 1,000 years,Chinese dream for 100 years,The dream carries on, the dream embraces all,For the revival of China, for the revival of China!
The new books include studies of 40 revolutionary heroes, writings by revolutionary leader Mao Zedong like his 1944 speech "Serve the People"
and lessons on China’s territorial claims in the disputed South China Sea, a pillar of Mr. Xi’s foreign policy.
Zhang Lifan said that The party’s theories lack vitality and innovation,
One is Ms. Xie’s Workers and Peasants Red Army Elementary School, located in Yuqing County near
the site of a former Communist revolutionary base in Guizhou, a mountainous southern province.
