The Map of National Shame (; ja|国恥地図) is a map created around 1930 by the Nationalist government of the Republic of China, depicting territories that China was perceived to have lost control or influence over to the Western powers and Japan.
This map was used in geography textbooks for elementary schools, published in 1933 by the World Geography Society in Shanghai, and it portrayed territories that China taught as having lost. These included the Ryukyu Islands, including Okinawa, Taiwan (then under Japanese rule), the Pratas Island, Palawan in the Philippines, the Indochinese Peninsula, the northern part of Borneo (present-day Malaysia), Brunei, the Malay Peninsula (including modern Malaysia and Singapore), the Andaman Islands of India, Sakhalin, and other territories.[1]
The total area of these territories are double the present land area of the People's Republic of China.
According to Professor of Tohoku University, although the territorial scope may differ, the elites in modern China hold similar historical views.[2] In other words, what Japan and Western countries refer to as Chinese attempts to "change the status quo by force" is seen in China as the "recovery of lost lands".
It was revealed that instructors at the U.S. military's reconnaissance and intelligence officer training institution at Goodfellow Air Force Base in Texas have been using this map as a basis for "discussion".[3] According to Professor Tomohide Murai of Tokyo International University, the U.S. Air Force may have examined the concern that "the People's Liberation Army of China is accelerating its actions under the banner of 'recovering lost territories'".