Eight centuries after the Magna Carta, it is still making waves — this time in Beijing, where nervous authorities have blocked plans to display a rare parchment copy of the “foundation of freedom” charter.
Far from cementing a touted “golden era” of Sino-British relations, authorities apparently worried that the Magna Carta, which threw medieval Britain into a spin by curbing the monarchy’s powers, would sow unwelcome ideas into the minds of Chinese students.
The exhibit, which was to have helped kick off next week’s visit by President Xi Jinping to the UK, is now nestling in the quieter halls of the British embassy rather than Beijing’s Renmin university campus.
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