Taipei Times
Date: May 07, 2015
By: Alison Hsiao  /  Staff reporter

A group of authors and professors of literature yesterday gathered outside the

New Power Party legislative hopeful Hu Po-yen, center, and his supporters yesterday plant seeds in a flowerpot in front of the Legislative Yuan during a news conference to criticize the government’s adjustments of the high-school curriculum guidelines. Photo: Wang Min-wei, Taipei Times

Legislative Yuan in Taipei to protest against the new high-school Chinese language curriculum which reincorporates a high percentage of classical Chinese material while neglecting Taiwanese and contemporary literature.

Na Su-phok (藍士博), one of the founders of the Alliance of the Young Safeguarding Taiwanese Literature and History, said that while concerns have been raised against the adjustments made to the history and civil education curriculum guidelines, there have been relatively few objections made public against the adjusted curriculum for Mandarin Chinese-language study.     [FULL  STORY]