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As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and
by bgee 7y ago
As someone who was educated in China for 11 years, I would argue the part of KMT that CCP left out in my history book was mostly covering up the corruption and incompetence of KMT.
For example, little did I know that KMT deliberately destroyed a dam to "stop" Japanese army that killed almost 1 million instantly and later caused a famine in Henan that caused between 288,006 and 1,484,983 deaths right at my hometown[0][1].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9343 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9...
Edit: changed to English wikipedia pages from Chinese
- kevinwang 7y agoWhy would they want to leave that out
- yorwba 7y agoEnglish articles: [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Yellow_River_flood [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9343 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_famine_of_1942%E2%80%9... I was going to link your [0] and my [0] as translations on Wikipedia, but then I noticed my [0] already has a different Chinese article assigned as its translation.
- bgee 7y agothanks for the links, updated.
- bananabreakfast 7y agoWow, your significant figures are way off here
- bgee 7y agoSorry which ones? I quoted from the Chinese wikipedia page and there might be some discrepancies there...
- derefr 7y agoThey mean that a range with error-bars as wide as (288,006 - 1,484,983) should look more like (0.3 - 1.5 million), since that sort of discrepancy between the estimates implies that neither measurement could have possibly been accurate down to the individual person.
- bgee 7y agoAh that makes sense. Thanks for the clarification.