Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress

What is the irony of Lou and the narrator discovering western literature only when they are sent away to have decadent western ideas reeducated out of them?

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The irony is in the fact that the boys were sent to be re-educated in order to remove Western influences..... not to provide them with access to forbidden literature.

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