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by dumb1224 1880 days ago
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 :)

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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.

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