The average Chinese person does not know a huge amount about Britain. What they do know is tinged with blood, opium and fire.
Large sections of China’s “patriotic education” curriculum — introduced by the ruling Communist party after the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests — focus on colonial outrages committed by Britain in the 19th century.
Official history books in China date the start of the country’s modern era to 1840, the year of the first opium war and the beginning of what they describe as the “century of humiliation” at the hands of foreigners, led by Britain.
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