(abc.net.au) - Hundreds of people have taken to Taiwan's streets to protest against revisions to textbooks that students say aim to brainwash them into accepting a "one China" view of history.
More than 100 youths stormed Taiwan's ministry of education on Friday in a bid to repeal changes to history books likely to hit school shelves this week.
Dozens were still camped out in the building's courtyard on Monday (local time).
The demonstrations follow months of smaller protests in which students threw paint balloons, shouted slogans and staged sit-ins in front of the ministry.
Last month, dozens were arrested for scaling ladders and breaking into the building.
One later took their own life, though the motivation was unclear.
The protests, the largest in over a year, reflect a surge of nationalism among Taiwan's youth, who are far more likely than their elders to identify as Taiwanese rather than Chinese.
They also come ahead of January elections in which the youth movement will likely help sweep in a party which leans towards independence from China, something Communist Party rulers in Beijing will never condone, even though the island is self ruled.
"We are Taiwan. China is China," Liu Tzuhao, 18, said in front of a makeshift memorial to the suicide victim at the protest site.
Taiwan's ruling Nationalist Party fled to the island after losing the civil war against China's communists in 1949. Full Story
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