Liu Dong has become a part-time oral historian, collecting stories from the soldiers of the Chinese Kuomintang (KMT) – or National Revolutionary Army during the Republican era (1912-1949) – who fought in the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression (1937-1945). The experience, he said, “has thoroughly changed my perceptions about Chinese history.”
Liu said his research shows that KMT soldiers played a more important role in this war, which undermines the assertions of many official history books which regard the Communist Party as the major contributor to the war effort.