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China makes Jane Eyre required reading amid falling birth and marriage rates
China has made Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre required reading for every secondary school student since September.
The move comes as marriage and birth rates in the country are falling.
The Chinese government hopes the story will encourage young people to choose traditional family values.
Jane Eyre is a Victorian novel, written by a Western author.
The policy is part of an effort to respond to declining marriage and birth rates.
The information available does not say whether the policy has changed young people’s views or affected those rates.
China has made Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre required reading for every middle school student.
The requirement has been in place since September.
The Chinese government is using the Victorian novel in an effort to reverse falling marriage and birth rates.
The Communist Party hopes the story will encourage young people to choose traditional family values.
- Who
- The Chinese government and Communist Party.
- What
- Jane Eyre has become required reading for every Chinese middle school student.
- When
- Since September.
- Where
- China.
- Why
- The Communist Party hopes the novel will encourage young people to choose traditional family values and help reverse falling marriage and birth rates.
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- Novel
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
- Requirement
- Required reading for every Chinese middle school student
- Start
- Since September
- Stated aim
- Encourage traditional family values and address falling marriage and birth rates
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