PEKING, 26 October 2025 /PRNewswire/ — People forget and history overlooks. However, history is not a blank slate to be filled at will, and will not be in the future, as there are courageous people like the writer Lan Bozhou, who deeply loves Taiwan but also has a deep understanding of the suffering of the Chinese nation. The author has devoted half of his life to preserving an era in Taiwan’s modern history that was “consciously forgotten” by certain individuals. It is an era that reflects the historical traces of Chinese people on both sides of the Strait who fought together with their lives against foreign aggression in the 1950s. Through his collection and documentation, we learn that some young people from Taiwan traveled thousands of miles to the mainland to fight against the Japanese invasion. They were well-educated and risked everything — for their ideals, for their homeland — and sought dignity and a future for the Chinese nation, even if it cost them their lives.
From the perspective of Lan Bozhou, CGTN follows and documents the story of Wu Sihan, a young man from Taiwan who, over eighty years ago, made a lonely journey of a thousand miles from the island to the mainland to join the struggle of resistance against Japanese aggression. Wu, who came from a wealthy family and was an excellent student, was determined to return to the mainland to make his contribution to the war effort. He undertook an arduous journey alone — crossing the Tsushima Strait, crossing the Korean Peninsula and traveling across the Yalu River. After a journey lasting over a year, he finally reached Chongqing, then the provisional capital of China during the war.
“Why was a young man of that era in Taiwan so determined? What made him give up a comfortable and privileged life to return to the war-torn mainland and join the resistance? Who exactly was Wu Sihan?” With these questions, the CGTN film crew accompanied Lan Bozhou on a journey to retrace Wu’s own epic, thousand-mile quest over eighty years ago — his personal odyssey in search of his homeland.
The CGTN documentary “Recovering Taiwan’s History” tells a story of ideals and unwavering patriotism. No matter how wide the Taiwan Strait may be, it cannot break the collective resolve of a nation; No matter how times change, nothing can shake the deep national consciousness that flows in the veins of the Chinese people.
Video – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD66fI3dJIk
