Blog assignment 5

Question: think of any instance you can of the winners writing the history. What would the same history look like if the losers wrote the history?

History is being taught and being mentioned all the time during a person’s life. Bacon once said, “histories make men wise.” Based on this famous sentence, we always regard history as one of the most important knowledges. However, have you ever thought, “are all the histories you learned about always the truth”? Obviously, you will find the answer denied if you ever attempted to figure out by comparing the same history written by winners and losers.

The truth of the war between China and Japan during World War II is distorted by Japanese almost all the time. From the aspect of Chinese people, that period is the darkest time during the whole five thousand years of Chinese history. More than 35000000 Chinese were killed just in eight years. In fact, without any exaggeration, every place passed by Japanese invaders, burning houses, crying people, bloody bodies and laughter of Japanese invaders showed up. Due to the shortage of my words, I am so guilty about unable to express the extremely cruel scene during that time. However, on the other hand, the truth of the Japanese’ barbarities rarely show up in their history books and media. Instead of loots, the appearance of Japanese always shows up with braveness and admire in Japan.

I didn’t have any intention to accuse any country. Instead, I just commented about this truth. As a Chinese, I should focus on how to figure out what I can learn from true history, so do you.