An elderly Chinese war veteran¡¯s shin still bears the mark of a bullet wound he suffered when fighting the Japanese as a teenager, a year before the end of World War II.

Eighty years on, Li Jinshui¡¯s scar remains as testimony to the bravery of Chinese troops in a conflict that killed millions of their people.

But the story behind China¡¯s overthrow of the brutal Japanese occupation is deeply contested.