The historian Hsu Cho-yun remarks, "The self-awareness of the Chinese as a people was not a theoretical construct, but was shaped by Japanese gunfire and formed out of Chinese blood."
「中國人的民族意識，不是從理論中建立的，是在日本軍隊的砲火中煉成，在中國人的鮮血中凝成，」歷史學者許倬雲為文指出。