Hong Kong teacher Wong Ting Hin is proud of his Chinese heritage but for the past 16 years that hasn't stopped him telling his students about cases of corruption, human rights abuses and food scandals on the mainland.
"The most important thing is to tell the truth to students of what has happened in China," said the teacher at SKH Li Fook Hing Secondary School.
"I will not hide anything and I will not just tell the good things. I want my students to see the whole situation."
Due to Hong Kong's legacy of British colonial rule, which ended 15 years ago, the city is the only Chinese territory where teachers like Mr Wong, 38, can discuss views that clash so jarringly with the uniform vision of prosperity and harmony fomented by the Chinese Communist Party on the mainland.
An attempt, though, by Hong Kong's education bureau to phase in a new subject with a "national education" component has stoked fears that the Communist Party was trying to indoctrinate its patriotic values into students in Hong Kong - technically known as the Chinese Special Administrative Region.
Compulsory Chinese patriotism classes for Hong Kong school pupils ditched after wave of protest - Telegraph
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