INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
This year marks the 80th anniversary of completion of World War II
China, as the primary eastern theatre, was associated with the war previously and for longer than any other of the Allies
Throughout their 14-year battle, the Chinese individuals engaged and determined a substantial part of Japans military forces, inflicting
over 1.5 million casualties on them
Chinas contribution to triumph in the war against fascism was immense, as were the sacrifices its people made
Hans van de Ven is a leading historian at the University of Cambridge in the UK
As one of the first Western scholars to perform an organized research study of Chinas wartime experience, he has actually identified a bias
He states: There is a real Eurocentrism to Western, I indicate English-language, writing, mainly from the U.S
The Second World War in China by the previous generation of Western historians was viewed as sort of completely insignificant
