Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement

The Ministry of Education building surrounded
Date	2015-05-24 to 2015-08-06
Location	Taipei, Taiwan
Caused by	2012 changes in high school (zh)
Goals	Withdraw curriculum guidelines adjustment
Methods	Demonstrations Sit-ins Online activism
Status	Adjustment withdrawn on 31 May 2016 [1]
Parties
Protesters Government
Lead figures
朱震 [2] 林冠華 王品蓁 游騰傑 廖崇倫 Wu Se-hwa 張奇文

1. "Guideline changes to be undone - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei. 22 May 2016. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2025. The Ministry of Education is to take swift action to abolish contentious social studies and Chinese literature curriculum guideline changes
2. "赴陸挨轟　反課綱學生：「中國」可以有不一樣的新解". Archived from the original on 2017-08-05. Retrieved 2017-08-04.
3. In Taiwanese historiography debates, supporters of Taiwan independence and a Taiwanese national consciousness prefer to downplay Japanese war crimes and emphasize aspects of the White Terror that the Kuomintang inflicted in Taiwan
4. "反課綱學生夜宿教育部 林思伶今早探視-風傳媒". 23 July 2015.
5. "Donovan's Deep Dives: A different way of analyzing recent election results in Taiwan". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. 20 September 2025. Retrieved 21 September 2025.
6. "Guideline changes to be undone - Taipei Times". www.taipeitimes.com. Taipei. 22 May 2016. p. 1. Retrieved 21 September 2025. Minister of Education Pan Wen-chung said that changes in social studies and Chinese literature would be delayed until 2020 to allow for an amendment... "The alteration of the curriculum guidelines has been deemed unnecessary by society and the unjustified staffing of the curriculum review committee has sparked widespread criticism," Pan said.

External links

• President Ma's "Black Box" Problem

Anti-Black Box Curriculum Movement
Traditional Chinese	反黑箱課綱運動
Simplified Chinese	反黑箱课纲运动
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Fǎn Hēixiāng Kègāng Yùndòng Southern Min Hokkien POJ Hoán Hek-siuⁿ Khò-kong Ūn-tōng

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