Why no movie about siege of Changchun? Approx. the same number of deaths
The Siege of Changchun (simplified Chinese: 长春围困战) was a siege operation launched by the People's Liberation Army during the Chinese Civil War against the city of Changchun, defended by the Nationalist forces.
Large numbers of civilians starved in the siege; estimates range from 150,000 to 330,000. The besieging Communist forces allowed Nationalist soldiers to leave, but forcibly prevented civilians from doing so, hoping to pressure General Zheng Dongguo, leader of the Nationalist forces, into surrender. Only 40,000 survivors remained, to tell of eating "rotten sorghum, then corncobs and then the bark off the trees” Later, people opened their pillows and consumed the corn husk filling. Later still they boiled and ate leather.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Changchun
This was an equal tragedy with Nanjing massacre, even more gruesome in some ways (would you rather be executed or slowly starved to death?), though it isn't nearly as well known. People in China don't generally know anything about it.
History is written by victors and CCP has written their fictional version of events in Chinese civil war. CCP's version of history doesn't tell you about siege of Changchun, and the sad part is, this event was just a grain of sand compared to all other evil s-it CCP did (great leap forward, cultural revolution, Tibet genocide, and so on).
Hollywood doesn't touch these subjects cause it would hurt relationships with China. It is only politically correct to make movies about atrocities of Nazis and Imperial Japanese. It feels like beating a dead horse, everyone knows about these events, everybody condemns them. They have also next to zero relevance of Germany and Japan today. Nazis and Imperial Japanese are long gone and buried.
Sadly the same CCP still rules China. Public talk about its dark past is very important, be it in a format of movie, documentary, book or whatever. However it's forbidden to speak publicly about these subjects in China. Messages like this would be deleted and writers account disabled from Chinese social media like Weibo. And if you push things too far in China, you could get in a serious trouble. Chinese movie industry will keep on making movies just about Nanjing massacre and other Japanese war crimes. It's like dancing on the graves of the victims while making CCP propaganda. It's disgusting.
If you want to read more about siege of Changchun:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/02/world/asia/02anniversary.html?_r=0 share