Taiwan's textbooks stress the history of Western Europe and the USA, while the mainland's concentrate on descriptions of national wars and wars of the ordinary people, such as the Latin-American struggles for independence from Spain, and the Ethiopian war. "Some of them we had never even heard of," says Professor Wang Shou-nan.
台灣重西歐、美國史介紹，大陸重民族戰爭及平民戰爭的描述，如拉丁美洲反西班牙獨立運動、埃薩俄比亞之戰等，「有些戰爭，連我們也不知道」，王壽南教授說。