The Taiwanese book "The Allied Forces of the Eight Nations is the Division of Justice" sold by Eslite Bookstore was criticized by the front page of Ta Kung Pao today (17th). Remove the relevant books from the shelves.
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Said the Eight-Power Allied Forces "To Solve the Humanitarian Crisis" Capture Beijing
According to the introduction of the "Readmoo eBook" website, the book "The Allied Forces of the Eight Nations is the Division of Justice" challenged the historical view that the battle of the Allied Forces of the Eight Nations in 1900 was a "national shame", and pointed out that the Allied Forces of the Eight Nations was a rescue operation, not an act of aggression. "The Chinese people at the time mostly thanked the Eight-Power Allied Forces for their occupation operations." "The Xin Chou Treaty is not a peace treaty of war, but a contract for compensation." "The Eight-Power Allied Forces indirectly led to the final birth of Republican China."
The book further stated that the Eight-Power Allied Forces were "a division of benevolence and righteousness that had to be developed because of the humanitarian crisis." The allied forces captured Tianjin and Beijing, broke the siege of the embassies and consulates, quelled the riots, rectified law and order, and fisted the bandits (press: refers to the Boxers). The red terror and the Qing court's "destroying the foreign" massacre came to an end, and society moved from chaos to governance.
"The Allied Forces of the Eight Nations are the Division of Justice" by Liu Qikun.
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The author is questioned as having no history-related academic qualifications or work experience
According to the book's introduction, the author Liu Qikun, also known as Liu Binghe, was born in Beijing, China. His parents are intellectuals. In 1957, he was designated as the "Ultra Right" in the "Anti-Rightist" movement. Since then, his family has suffered.
After the Mao era, he settled in Hong Kong. In 1988, he immigrated to Canada and settled in Vancouver, majoring in computer science. After graduation, he worked in computer software design and development for many years until he retired.
The introduction does not mention that Liu has a history-related education, only that he has "a wide range of interests; both Chinese and foreign history."
The fb page "Tracking Party Media", which pays attention to the trend of pro-organized media, said that after reading the book, it was believed that the book did not use historical materials to formulate arguments, but "pastes historical materials together with subjective comments." The Eight-Nation Alliance is a division of justice"; it took two pages to write "If the Eight-Nation Alliance loses, it will make China go backwards", but it is all hypothesis rather than analysis.
The establishment of the system questioned violations of national security laws to promote thorough investigations
"Ta Kung Pao" today (17th) titled "Eslite Books Selling Drugs", called the books "beautify the invaders" and "whitewash the invaders", and quoted Fu Jianci, a part-time professor at the Law School of Beijing Jiaotong University, for the book Suspected of violating the "Minato National Security Law."
According to reports, related books have been removed from the shelves of Eslite Hong Kong.
Many establishments criticized books on social networks. According to Pakatan Harapan Legislative Council Member Liang Meifen, "The Eight-Power Allied Forces' bad deeds in China back then are exhausted, and there is nothing that can rationalize or even beautify their violent acts of aggression against other countries", questioning the Eslite Bookstore. Whether it meets the professional ability to handle bookstores and whether it has the ability to judge which books can be put on the shelves. If the books are put on the shelves with political purposes, distort facts and harm the country, the bookstore needs to bear legal responsibility and require the SAR government to strengthen the supervision of published books .
Ge Peifan, a member of the DAB Legislative Council, pointed out that being "outraged" by the content of the book is "maliciously distorting history and vilifying China, which is indignation."
She pointed out that in recent days, people have successively received complaints about books from the public. "There are more than one hundred complaints." According to her knowledge, people have reported to the National Security Department of the police and the Eslite Bookstore.
The DAB Chen Keqin pointed out: "The book distorts facts, falsifies history, the evil acts of the Eight-Nation Alliance of the United States invaded China, discredited the country, provokes hatred, and tears up society. The law enforcement department should investigate whether there is any violation of the "Hong Kong National Security Act"!"
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