Activist Chinese lawyer Pu Zhiqiang (profiled by Philip Pan in the Washington Post last year) has published a brief editorial in the New York Times, translated from Chinese. It's an eloquent comparison of the records of Japan and China that isn't very forgiving to either side, but does make Pu's dissatisfaction with the status quo clear.

We Chinese are outraged by Japan's World War II crimes - the forcing of Chinese into sexual slavery as "comfort women," the 1937 massacre of unarmed civilians in Nanking, and the experiments in biological warfare. Our indignation redoubles when the Japanese distort or paper over this record in their museums and their textbooks. But if we look honestly at ourselves - at the massacres and invasions strewn through Chinese history, or just at the suppression of protesters in recent times - and if we compare the behavior of the Japanese military with that of our own soldiers, there is not much to distinguish China from Japan.

From “China's Selective Memory”, New York Times, April 28, 2005.

It's easy for us foreigners to moralize. It is, perhaps, more interesting and relevant when Chinese people do it. The message of Pu's piece is that anger without introspection, no matter how legitimate, won't, ultimately, improve the lives of Chinese people.