How China becomes Chinazi (I)

My memories and reflection of what I learnt during Chinese History lessons in secondary school

As I wrote I found that I have written around 4000 words and Medium shows that it would be a 16-minute read but I haven’t finished writing all of the histories. I haven’t even started my reflection part.
So I decide to split it into 4 parts. The first part is the Chinese history I learnt in Secondary 1. The second part is for Secondary 2, third for Secondary 3. And the final part is my reflection.
I’m writing the third part, and the second part is coming up soon. Thanks.

September 2003, the school year after SARS outbreak in Hong Kong, I started secondary school. When starting secondary school, local students have more subjects to study than primary school. Chinese History and World History are two of the extra subjects.

Photo by Daniel H. Tong on Unsplash

Yes, I needed to take two history subjects at the same time. However, Chinese history was relatively unimportant in World History because it had a separate subject. It had a small part related to the history of Hong Kong in World History instead.

Time flies, now I hear that some schools have no history classes at all (not my alma mater). What are the reasons for the people to learn history…