"Actually, the modern history of China during the war with Japan needs to be viewed afresh," says Lu Fang-sang of the Academia Sinica's Institute of Modern History. To historians, the 1987 end of martial law in Taiwan constituted a quiet revolution in which taboos against certain subjects or certain primary source materials were lifted.
「其實，抗戰時候的中國現代史，同樣需要新的視野來爬梳，」中研院近史所研究員呂芳上指出，對於史學界而言，解嚴是一場寧靜的大革命，過去無法書寫的禁忌、無法觸及的一手資料，都開放了。