This is my honour to write my first English column at Epochs Times. For the last year or so, I have been active with the media, a fact that would have been unimaginable had I been still with the Hong Kong Examinations and Assessment Authority (HKEAA).
This turn of life can be traced to 2020, due to an ordinary History exam question.
‘“Japan did more good than harm to China in the period 1900-45.” Do you agree? Explain your answer with reference to Sources and using your own knowledge.’, a question of the 2020 HKDSE History exam that was under my charge, was severely criticised as ‘misleading’ and ‘hurting the national sentiment of the Chinese’ by the pro-Beijing camp, including the Office of the Commissioner of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC in Hong Kong. Secretary for Education Kelvin Yeung Yun-hung claimed that the question had ‘no room for discussion’, ‘because’ Japan only did harm and nothing good to China.
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