Originally Posted by moondog
Changing gears for a moment, I purchased a Chinese high school history textbook a few years ago just so I could figure out exactly what had been pumped into their brains (e.g. China won WWII by dessimating the Japanese into the submission).
Hey
moondog, thanks again for all your help in BJ.
To this point, I'm currently reading
Mao, The Untold Story, by Jung Chang. I'd be amazed if it's available in China, as it's a "revisionist bombshell" as one of the blurbs on the back cover reads. But it's fascinating in its revelations of Mao's machinations and treachery, most of which are still unknown in China.
My son and I went to the Chinese People's Revolutionary Military Museum, where one wing of an entire floor is devoted to the Japanese occupation and the subsequent birth of the PRC in 1949. According to this book, most of the official story displayed there is complete fabrication.