How great can a person be? She spent her life seeking justice for 300,000 undead, trading her life for the covered up historical truth, and collecting all the evidence of darkness and pain to tell the world about this inhumane atrocity that had taken place in Nanjing, China!
Her name was Zhang Chunru, one of the recorders of the Nanjing Massacre. This young girl, who was only 29 years old at the time, single-handedly let the whole world know about the Nanjing Massacre and the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese invaders in Nanjing, China.
On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army rushed into the city of Nanjing, Nanjing fell completely, the Japanese army carried out a six-week robbery and massacre in the city, down to a few years old children up to 80 years old, whether children or pregnant women, did not escape this atrocity, a total of more than 300,000 compatriots were brutally killed.
However, this near-dehumanizing evil of the Japanese army has not been remembered by the world, let alone punished and punished as it deserves. After the end of World War II, Japan refused to acknowledge their atrocities in Nanjing, and even blatantly tampered with textbooks in an attempt to change the world's perception of the matter. And at that time, many other countries overseas only knew about the tragedy of the Nazi concentration camps, but they did not know that the Nanjing Massacre also occurred during World War II.
In order to restore this tragic truth, Zhang Chunru, who was 29 years old at the time and was still studying in the United States, bravely stood up, and in 1995, after completing the basic investigation in the United States, Zhang Chunru went to the motherland alone, and in Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places, Zhang Chunru went door to door to conduct field visits. When he saw more than thirty wounds on the body of his elderly grandmother, zhang chun was trembling with anger when he personally obtained the photos of the Inhumane torture of the Chinese people such as digging their hearts and burying them alive.
I don't know how many times Zhang Chunru cried several times during the writing process, this mental torture made her start to lose her hair a lot, suffered from severe migraines, but despite the double pressure of body and spirit, she still insisted on telling this history objectively, and she vowed to make this deliberately buried fact public.
On December 13, 1997, on the occasion of the sixtieth anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, the most brutal atrocity in human history, the Nanjing Massacre, was completely made public in Zhang Chunru's pen. Zhang Chunru's "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Catastrophe of World War II" details the rape, abuse, and killing of a large number of Chinese civilians by the Japanese army in Nanjing, China. The book was a sensation in the world as soon as it was published, and in less than a month, it was listed as a recommended reading by the New York Times and one of the best books of the year by book reviews.
The book "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Catastrophe of World War II" has made many Americans aware of this dusty history, and at the same time, Zhang Chunru herself has been targeted by many Japanese right-wingers because of this book, and she has received a large number of threatening letters, and even received a direct threat of bullets in the envelope, and even her three-year-old son has been implicated.
Since then, Zhang Chunru has constantly changed his mobile phone number, and even the information of his family and children has not dared to reveal half of it, and under the constant pressure and various intimidation threats, Zhang Chunru's spirit has serious problems. On November 9, 2004, under the side effects of psychotropic drugs, Zhang Chunru committed suicide by drinking a bullet next to a remote highway in the United States, at the age of 36!
If the country lives and dies, it is better to avoid it because of misfortune and happiness. 39 years old, for a person, may be the first half of life, but Zhang Chunru used words to illuminate a dark corner of history, but he was eventually swallowed up by darkness. She originally had a happy family, but chose to expose the cruel historical truth in peacetime.
In 1998, the year after her book was published, Zhang Chunru won the Chinese American Women's Federation's National Women of the Year Award, and her book was also filmed on television as one of the features of the Historical Discovery Channel.
Later, the book also had a Japanese version, which was 380 pages thick and included in the 43 precious historical photographs attached to the original work, showing the full picture of the original book.
On December 12, 2021, Zhang Chunru's mother, Zhang Yingying, said at an online forum hosted by Canada and Maple for the anniversary of the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, "If you don't remember history, you will definitely repeat the same mistakes in the future." "Because only by remembering the truth can we avoid a recurrence of atrocities."
We should also remember Zhang Chunru's name, remember "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Great Catastrophe in World War II", this book written by Zhang Chunru with his life, do not forget the national shame, revitalize China!