[dumb1224]

We were not educated enough about this particular history in China but when I grew up I read a bit to know most of it. But I'm shocked it wasn't well known internationally.

I find the same situation in Ireland complicated as well after living there for 6 years. Before it was simply a naive 'why didn't NI unite with the republic of Ireland / why UK split Ireland up'. And being related to Britain and most events were in the press and it's english, there are still many people have no clue what happened. No wonder there could be so much misunderstanding and needless emotional arguments.

[dathinab]

I can't speak for other countries or even the current education system but when I went to school in Germany history (and political) class was filled up with European History/Politics and Germanies past to a degree that most Asian countries only where covered in context of European history (e.g. Opium-Wars where covered, but e.g. Taiwan or the Indian-China relationship was hardly covered at all).

But things have changed a bit since I went to school, but just a bit. And somewhat it also depends on the teacher.

PS: If you want to know the conflict around UK and Ireland was covered. And was covered more deeply then the Opium-Wars, to some degree because it also was used as basis for topic in english classes. But it was also a time in school from which I don't remember much, because being a teen in puberty annoyed by english and in turn not caring about the UK at all. So I have no idea if the coverage was "good" or "bad".

[dumb1224]

Similar experience to yours. European history didn't constitute a majority of the history lessons in my old days but one can understand that (there is a lot!).

I'm certain the quality of education back then in China weren't up to scratch for sure but for the curious you can always get books if you have an interesting topic. I find books even superior media over history education because like you said younger me simply wasn't interested enough in class :)

[dathinab]

I also can recommend Extra Credits (on YouTube), it's imperfect and simplified, but it still tries to be reasonable accurate for the kind of information source it is. At least it's much more concerned about accuracy then many modern (TV) documentation are. They also tend to have episode where they go through mistakes they accidentally had done in previous episodes..

EDIT: You to be clear they haven't done a episode about Taiwan (I think), but about other things I hadn't (or had) known about.

[dumb1224]

Thanks for recommending. Well that'll be a nice video idea :)