2. It’s considered as part of the “Golden Rule” and is a concept found in many religions including the ancient Egyptians far ahead of Confucius. I simply said there are many examples for the use of the “Golden Rule” and hijacking it for nationalistic pride or attributing it to China is simply wrong. I would consider the “Golden Rule” as a heritage to the world and not to a specific Country. Further, China did not exist in its current form in 550BC, but that is something else.

3. The Yuan Dynasty was founded by Kublai Khan who is known to have conquered the remaining Chinese Kingdoms (all of different Chinese ethnicities and speaking different languages). Tibet was conquered in 1236 until 1354 (118 years) by Yuan but regained independence. The Qing Dynasty invaded once again (1720) and the Eastern Tibet was annexed to other Qing provinces. Western Tibet (what we have present day) remained as a Client Kingdom and the border was recognized until 1910. From 1700s onward Chinese armies invaded periodically only to withdraw later (during this time massacres took place to the liking of Nanking). Tibet had even trade and diplomatic missions with European powers during the 1800s onward. By 1957 China began a fully fledged invasion projecting its colonialism and rule over the territory. No compensation, or apologies to the hundreds of thousands of victims were ever mentioned by the Chinese Gov. Currently the Chinese Gov. refuses to recognize the atrocities that took place there and continue to take place.

As in my previous comments, nothing has been learnt from history, and thus the tragedies and suffering continue to be repeated. As stated in a previous comment the Japanese apologies were inadequate, and the tragedy of Nanking horrendous. Every country on this Earth were involved at some point in similar crimes, and apologies although important should not be the obstacles to bringing peace and forgiveness to everyone. The World must converge, and not live through hate, blame, and vengeance.

2. You will find in Google Confucius (550BC) Analects “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

3. Tibet was ruled under Chinese Yuan dynasty on 12th century, and was under Chinese government’s administration ever since. It was made a province of Qing Dynasty in 1728.

2. You will find in Google Confucius (550BC) Analects “What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

3. Tibet was ruled under Chinese Yuan dynasty on 12th century, and was under Chinese government’s administration ever since. It was made a province of Qing Dynasty in 1728.

Ask any Japanese citizen and they would express horror and regret at these atrocities, just as Americans would when hearing about torture methods used after 9/11 on men who were totally innocent. Dangerous to watch a documentary like this one and hate an entire people group as a result. The “Japanese” are individuals whose opinions, temperaments and feelings are as varied as “Americans” – we do not wish all Americans to be hated and painted with the same brush, so let’s not do the same thing to others.

Things like, “in the 4000 years of history China has never invaded another country”, etc. Up until recently China was a series of kingdoms with different customs and languages, similarly with what Europe or India is. Through conquest those kingdoms became what now is China. Continuous wars made the China of today. One Kingdom (Country) invading another.

Anyway, my point is the way the documentary was created is amateurish, often by the use of loaded words. Things like “to their embarrassment the Japanese could not take Shanghai, so they brought reinforcements.” In another historical book it said “The Japanese advance was swift and devastating…capturing Shanghai in Nov’37 and Nanjing in Dec’37″.

Also “don’t do unto others as you would have them do to you” is associated to China (?!) when my Google search found it was said by Jesus (google Luke 6:31). There are many other examples.

This film is more of a nationalistic propaganda piece than a documentary to inform us of the tragedies and horror of war. See the map of China in the film? Well, it includes Tibet, Manchuria, Mongolia and Eastern Turkistan that were not part of China. As a fact Tibet was not conquered until 1959.

I stopped watching it when the commentary got in the way of what could have been a useful documentary. I’ve read of the Rape of Nanking and will hopefully find a documentary about it that’s done in a much better way.

I pity your ignorance and the way your government is lying to you just to make your life feel a little better.