Abstract
Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the introduction of the subject of history in high schools has gone through many ups and downs. From 1950 to 1957, the Ministry of Education issued seven different high school curricula. All of them stipulated that there were to be three history classes each week in all six years of junior and senior high school. This meant that history took up nearly 10 percent of the total teaching hours, ranking fourth in weighting in the curricula, after Chinese, mathematics, and foreign languages. In the 1958 curriculum, however, the Ministry of Education reduced the teaching time by one-third. Then, a new curriculum in 1963 stipulated that history was to be taught only in Junior II and III and Senior I, thereby further reducing teaching hours to only 4.5 percent of the total.
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