#HomeTimeMuseum#18 years ago today, a Chinese female writer committed suicide outside Gallup, California, USA, ending her gorgeous and beautiful youth.
Her name is Zhang Chunru, a weak woman who exposed the crimes of Japanese militarism for the world, but we failed to protect her, and all Chinese owe her a deep bow.
Zhang Chunru
Zhang Chunru's ancestral home is Jiangsu, his grandfather is an anti-Japanese general, his father is a champion of the physics department of National Taiwan University, and his mother is a professor of microbiology at the University of Illinois. Although she is in the United States, her parents have told her that she is a Chinese since she was a child, and often tell her the story of her grandfather's resistance to Japan. By chance, Zhang Chunru visited a photo exhibition of the Nanjing Massacre. When the tragedies that she had only heard of were so truthfully presented to her, the feelings connected by blood made her cry for the great suffering that her fellow citizens had suffered. She began to realize that Westerners knew only about Hitler and Auschwitz, but nothing about the Nanjing massacre in their home country, because someone had been covering up and disguising.
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So she decided that she must lift this fig leaf and let the world clearly see that there was a huge crime and catastrophe in the history of human civilization in Nanjing. Since then, she has collected a large number of materials in Chinese, Japanese, German, and English, as well as unpublished source materials such as diaries, notes, letters, and government reports. She even reached out to Japanese World War II veterans through letters. In order to gather more direct information, in 1997, she returned to her ancestral hometown of Jiangsu. In the process of interviewing the survivors, every old man was emotional and gushing, but he could not count the terrible nightmare. At the ruins of various execution sites, the guide told her that tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians had been driven here, some were doused with gasoline and burned en masse, some were used by the Japanese army as fire targets to practice shooting, and some were directly strafed with machine guns. What is even more unacceptable is that when Zhang Chunru contacted a Japanese veteran and asked him if he felt guilty, the man said that maybe when we rape, we see them as women, and when we kill them, they are just animals like pigs and dogs.
This information kept Zhang Chunru awake all night, worked more than a dozen hours a day, and finally published his book "The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe of the Nanjing Massacre" in December 1997. Just one month after its release, the book entered the New York Times bestseller list and was named the most popular book of the year.
Zhang Chunru – "Nanjing Massacre"
Today, the book has been translated into 15 languages and sold more than a million copies. This young woman single-handedly brought the bloody historical truth to people all over the world, but it also brought her havoc. Japan's well-known right-wing magazine "Zhujun" accused the Japanese Foreign Ministry of tolerating the existence of such anti-Japanese books. The Japanese ambassador to the United States openly said at the press conference that Zhang Chunru was talking nonsense. Zhang Chunru immediately asked to confront him on a TV show. In this confrontation, although Zhang Chunru was speechless by the Japanese ambassador, he finally asked the Japanese side to apologize but was rejected. Not only did she not apologize, but Japanese right-wingers have since targeted her and carried out crazy harassment and retaliation. They often made calls of all kinds of insults and death threats to keep her busy.
Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall in Huai'an City, Jiangsu
On the 2021 National Memorial Day, Huai'an Experimental Middle School visited Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall (Source/Network)
On the 2021 National Memorial Day, Huai'an Experimental Middle School visited Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall (Source/Network)
Zhang Chunru once said in lectures that people often watched her outside the window in the middle of the night, put bugs in her home, and received threatening letters with blades and bullets. Originally, in the process of writing about the Nanjing Massacre, she had to face the brutal atrocities. Often she cried while writing, and after crying, when her emotions calmed down, she then wrote about the suffering of her compatriots and the catastrophe of the nation, all of which weighed on this weak woman, coupled with the harassment and threats of Japanese right-wing forces, which she could not bear. Finally, on November 9, 2004, she drove out alone and committed suicide in the suburbs, and a young, beautiful and righteous life was frozen at this moment.
On the 2021 National Memorial Day, Huai'an Experimental Middle School visited Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall (Source/Network)
On the 2021 National Memorial Day, Huai'an Experimental Middle School visited Zhang Chunru Memorial Hall (Source/Network)
For this reason, more than 230 media around the world expressed their condolences, Hollywood filmed the Nanjing catastrophe, Canada filmed the film of the same name "Zhang Chunru" for her, and "Angel of Justice -- Zhang Chunru" published by the Hubei People's Publishing House on the mainland. It was as if seeing a bullet, flying through 67 years, from World War II, concentrating the body of a thin but incomparably great national hero who campaigned for 300,000 unjust souls in Nanjing.
"Zhang Chunru - The Woman Who Can't Forget History"
Today, every Chinese should give her a thumbs up and owe her a deep bow! Honor the heroes, don't forget the national shame!
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