The Nanjing Massacre was one of the heinous crimes committed by the Japanese army invading China in China, and many Chinese people believe that it. The Nanjing Massacre is known to many people around the world.
In fact, before she wrote the book "Nanjing Massacre", the atrocities committed by the invading Japanese army in Nanjing did not attract the attention of the people of the world.
After the release of this book, she publicized it in the United States and other Western developed countries, and with her efforts in many ways, she wrote books and gave interviews. Interview the survivors yourself and post the video online for publication.
After her many efforts, the Nanjing Massacre, the atrocity committed by the Japanese army against the Chinese people, began to be slowly known to the ordinary people in Europe and the United States. For a quarter of her life, she spent the day on the run to expose the atrocities of the Japanese army. Let's get to know this righteous strange woman.
Exposing the atrocities of the Japanese army, Zhang Chunru, author of the book "Nanjing Massacre"
Zhang Chunru, the name of an ordinary Chinese woman, might not have known much if she hadn't written a book about the Nanjing Massacre. But without the book she wrote about the Nanjing Massacre, perhaps the atrocities of the Japanese army would have been basically unknown to anyone in Europe and the United States.
Born in 1968 in New Jersey, Zhang Chunru is a second-generation Chinese from Huai'an, Jiangsu Province, the hometown of Premier Zhou. Zhang Chunru worked in the news media industry after graduating from university.
In the early 1990s, Zhang began writing as a freelance writer for the Chicago Tribune, The New York Times, and The Associated Press.
In the winter of 1995, Zhang Chunru completed preliminary preparations for the book "The Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Scourge of World War II" at the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.
In order to better understand the truth of the facts, Zhang Chunru traveled to Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other cities in China for a six-week in-depth investigation.
After returning to the United States, she began to supplement the various materials and data of the book, and soon after, Zhang Chunru returned to China, this time to Nanjing, China, where the Nanjing Massacre took place.
Here she repeatedly investigated and visited those who had experienced the Nanjing Massacre. There are women and there are men among them. Through communication with them, many Chinese women who were atrocities committed by the Japanese army opened their hearts to her.
Recalling the painful experience of that year, these Japanese troops burned and looted in Nanjing. Rape women, shoot men, bury people alive, and even practice assassination techniques with living Chinese people.
Zhang Chunru couldn't listen to herself, and from here she also got a lot of old photos. The content inside can't bear to look directly at it, it is simply hell on earth. Zhang Chunru confessed that she could not bear to look directly at some photos now.
In 1997, Zhang Chunru published the English version of "Nanjing Massacre" in the United States. Zhang Chunru's Book of the Nanjing Massacre is in English, not Chinese, and it details the various atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing. It's also accompanied by photos of that year, which is to make it clear to all readers that this is really happening. The domestic Chinese version is translated!
What is the significance of Zhang Chunru's book "Nanjing Massacre"?
Many people say that the Nanjing Massacre. It was originally a scar that we Chinese, why should we expose our own scars, but what we don't know is. Before Zhang Chunru's Nanjing Massacre book was released, few people in Europe and the United States knew about the Nanjing Massacre except China.
When her book was released in the United States, it didn't take long to cause an uproar. It was listed as a recommended book by the New York Times that year and was called one of the best books of the year by book reviews. Within a month, it hit the New York Times bestseller list and was named the most popular book of the year.
As more americans became aware of the Nanjing Massacre, Zhang Chunru began appearing on television, giving interviews, and speaking in various places. This made it easier for the American people at that time to understand the atrocities committed by the Japanese army in Nanjing.
In 1998, Zhang Chunru connected to the then Japanese ambassador to the United States Kunihiko Saito on a television program. Zhang Chunru said on the show that the Japanese government has never apologized for the Nanjing Massacre in any public and has never acknowledged the Nanjing Massacre.
The Japanese government just wanted this history to disappear, and Kunihiko Saito, who was on the other side of the TV, was speechless and could only make other explanations vaguely.
Zhang Chunru's book on the Nanjing Massacre attracted a lot of attention in the West, and the Western people at this time knew that the Japanese army had committed such an atrocity in Nanjing.
Zhang Chunru's Nanjing Massacre allowed more Western people to understand this history, and also provided good information and evidence for exposing the crimes of the Japanese army. Without Zhang Chunru's book, perhaps the Nanjing Massacre has not been known to many people in Western countries until now.
It was also at this time that the right-wing forces of the Japanese army threatened to retaliate against Zhang Chunru.
Suffering from major depressive disorder and multiple threats, Zhang Chunru committed suicide.
Zhang Chunru's ending can be described as tragic, and when Zhang Chunru wrote the book Nanjing Massacre, his heart was already suffering. She saw so many profiles and photographs that really complemented history.
But it is also a bloody fact, some things are also unacceptable to ordinary people, and the Japanese government has resisted in every way and published the Nanjing Massacre.
Zhang Chunru often received all kinds of harassment and threats, not only letters, but also telephones. She could only change her number frequently, and did not dare to tell others her home address, but she still could not change it. Harassment was also frequent, and she was even followed on the street.
In such a situation, Zhang Chunru suffered from major depression, and the doctor told her husband that she needed to take medicine all year round, and the disease may not get better for a lifetime.
On November 9, 2004, Zhang Chunru shot himself in the car in various pains, ending his young life. We can think of how much pressure Zhang Chunru endured before committing suicide, and the inner pain that could not be released. Only to choose to end their lives.
We should thank Zhang Chunru for her persistence and justice, so that the atrocities of the Japanese army were presented to the people of Europe and the United States, and this ironclad fact can no longer be denied. May Zhang Chunru of Heaven not be in pain, but full of sunshine.