Taipei City director of education Wu Ching-ji points out that in the past textbooks were more "traditional" in nature, so children understood about Shanghai and Beijing but knew little about the towns and countryside where they lived.
台北市教育局長吳清基指出，過去的教科書從傳統出發，造成學生可能對上海、北京很瞭解，但對生活周遭的鄉鎮卻認識有限。