BEIJING (Bloomberg): A state-owned Chinese educational publisher was forced to recall a set of elementary school math textbooks after its illustrations were widely criticised for being ugly, pornographic and covertly pro-American.
People’s Education Press issued a public statement Thursday (May 27) promising to redesign the illustrations after its textbooks became the most-discussed topic on China’s Twitter-like Weibo social media platform.
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