[LM_NET] World Book: the China edition

["Giffard, Sue" <SGiffard@ECFS.ORG>]

School Library Journal has an article about changes made in the edition of the 
World Book being marketed in the Republic of China, including an omission of the 
Tiananmen Square crackdown in 1989 and the arrest of Falun Gong demonstrators in 
1999, and a change in the status of Taiwan from a country to a province of China. 

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6445703.html?q=world+book+china

I called the 800 number on the World Book website to reach our local 
representative, and informed her that we would be investigating alternative sources 
for an encyclopedia, as I did not feel that we could trust an encyclopedia that 
altered information to make it palatable to the political views of the government 
of the country it was marketing in. The rep promised to bring it up with a 
vice-president from the central World Book office. 

Sue Giffard
Ethical Culture School
New York, NY 10023
sgiffard@ecfs.org
(212)712-6292

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" 
— Albert Einstein.


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