《人民日报》1965年7月8日《学术研究》专刊发表了刘大年同志的《亚洲历史怎样评价?》一文.文章共分三节.第一节题为“亚洲历史在西方资产阶级学者笔下被根本歪曲了”.文章指出,亚洲是世界文明的最古老的发祥地之一,近代的世界风暴许多次是从亚洲卷起的.但长期以来,西方资产阶级学者千方百计歪曲了亚洲历史.他们的有关亚洲历史的著作大部分是由两类叙述填充起来的.第一类,亚洲自古迄今到处只有“野蛮”、“落后”、“不道德”和“不文明”;第二类,亚洲近代的进步和文明是由于西方的慷慨恩赐.凡属讲到亚洲的文化和人民生活无不极力加以底毁;对殖民主义统治亚洲造下的种种罪恶,则无不极力加以洗 “People’s Daily” July 8, 1965 “academic research” special issue published Comrade Liu Damin’s “How to evaluate the history of Asia.” The article is divided into three sections.The first section entitled “History of Asia in the hands of Western bourgeois scholars was Basically distorted. ”The article pointed out that Asia is one of the oldest birthplaces of the world’s civilizations and the modern world turmoil has been rolled back many times in Asia. But for a long time, Western bourgeois scholars have tried every means to distort the history of Asia. Most of the writings on the history of Asia are filled in with two kinds of narrative: the first category has so far been only “barbaric”, “backward”, “immoral” and “uncivilized” in Asia since ancient times In the second category, the progress and civilization in modern Asia were due to the generosity of the West, and all the culture and people’s life that spoke of Asia were desperately and thoroughly destroyed. All crimes committed under the colonialist rule in Asia were vigorously washed