China's indoctrination in state elementary schools (and beyond) is a worthy subject of study, and was recently explored in a three-part series looking at Chinese history books.
Liusi. Six-four. The two-syllable word, spoken nonchalantly by our teacher, was a stone cast into the tranquil pond of a classroom. From each ripple rose a gasp, a murmur, or a perplexed face, with only one or two enunciating the question on many of our minds, “What is six-four?” It was the summer of 2002. I was 12 years old. At the extracurricular English course my mother