A Piece of ME

Taipei and Beijing: attitudes to historical truth
Li Datong

A comparison between Taiwan and mainland China shows that the chinese Communist Party is still incapable of confronting and discussing the truth of its past, says Li Datong.
12 - 12 - 2007


In 1995, a group of historians from the People's Republic of China (PRC) visited Taiwan to take part in a conference marking the fiftieth anniversary of victory in the war against Japan. As they entered the Academia Sinica, a young Taiwanese scholar jokingly called out: "The communist bandits are here!" Although the words were only spoken in jest, academics from both sides of the Straits found them extremely interesting and made them a subject of discussion.