A teacher surnamed Song from the Oriental Film School at Aurora College in Shanghai during class questioned the casualty figures sustained during the Nanjing Massacre. A video of the incident was recorded by a student and posted online, and has since triggered heated debate. Following an investigation by the college, Song was fired.
However, the incident did not end there. Some self-media uploaded an alleged full version of the video of the lecture and labelled the student as a despicable "informant" because the student's version of the video was "edited." Later, the personal information of the "informant" student was exposed online and a wave of cyber violence was incited against the student. The student has reportedly received a large volume of abusive and offensive messages.
Regardless of the video uploaded by the student and the "full" version, core facts of the matter is clear: Song openly questioned the number of casualties of the Nanjing Massacre during class. She presented two arguments. For one, she said there are several versions of the number of compatriots killed in the Nanjing Massacre, and the figure of 300,000 was "selected by Chinese historians after the establishment of People's Republic of China." For another, the then Chinese government led by Kuomintang (KMT) did not count the number of victims according to their ID cards. In contrast, the names of Jews killed in Nazi German concentration camps during World War II were recorded.
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