chinese, throughout history, are not good for faithfully recording memories. sima qian was not a great example.

even today, the whole world still has similar problem, too many views, too few facts.

we need more sources like wiki.

i still remember fang's summary on yang lan and wu zheng, it was so impressive, like science writing, almost every sentence had solid source or logic. no views there, if my memory right.

yang and wu threatened to sue on defamation, but there was nothing they could do on fang's stuff.

we need more fact recordings like that. every1 has view, but only a few like sun got news and facts, and willing to put them out truthfully. they are more precious than pandas.

too bad, those in memory of korean wars are few alive now. and those of cultural revolution are not young either.

shame if we don't have facts anymore even if later we got freedom to review those histories.