After her “autobiography” was found that it wasn’t, a true story of HER life!!! From the Front Page Sections, translated…
The author of The Homecoming of Wansei had falsified the stories of her life, she’d apologized and admit to wrongdoing. While the readers felt cheated, but, those who’d made recommendations for the book may feel that anger from not cross checking ALL their facts first, I suppose?
With the advances in modern day technologies, it’s made falsifying things even easier to do. There had been incidences where the first place photograph at a photo competition was questioned as photoshopped or not; even as the Asian communities stressed on the importance of proof of prints, if you’re able to get your hands on the prototypes, it wouldn’t be that hard, to make another duplicate from it, not counting up the assortments of the various kinds of animations, videos found online. It actually really doesn’t matter the truth of fictions of the literary works, the sword-fighting novels of Louis Cha Leung-Yung, is clearly, a work of fiction, but, it doesn’t put that depreciation on whether or not it’s worthy of the readers’ time. More importantly, is whether or not this work can touch people, causing the readers to respond. The readers were moved by “The Homecoming of Wansei”, and, started focusing on the issues that were discussed in the book, and the author should feel good about it.
What’s worth more attention was, why would the writer need to falsefully claim that she has a Japanese grandmother? She must’ve known, that using concepts of psychology to get the readers to empathize toward her status, to sell more of her books, to empathize with her life situations, even helped her win that writer’s award. Man’s sense of empathy will get magnified, when they meet someone who’d needed their empathies more, causing those normal works to be viewed as outstanding, and, with the endorsement of the famous people, it would surely, gain the books the awards. The writer became rich AND famous in the process, while most readers were only lied to and cheated out of their money, but, the famous were, used, and, would the writers not get gnawed by their own conscience, in the middle of the nights?
Her family stood by her, stated with sense of righteousness, “Isn’t life sometimes fiction, and sometimes factual?”, surely, you can’t take life too seriously, but, “truth” has its own values, and, as the related organizations take back the “unreal” portions, isn’t that just right? I do hope, that the writer, as well as her families, view all of this as, a fictional tale too!
So, because this writer LIED about how the book was from her own experiences, but it wasn’t, that, was why she’s getting grilled, and, by falsifying the experiences that aren’t hers, DOES take away from the values of her book, and, the writer of this article is asking the readers to cast the FACT, that the writer of this book had LIED about the story being her own personal life experiences, and just, focus on the book, what they’re reading, but, it would be hard, because, how would you feel about something you thought was real turning out to be lies?