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no.4
I am a descendant of Chinese
It is my responsibility to write it
Zhang Chunru,
Born in 1968 in Princeton, New Jersey, USA,
His grandfather was Zhang Tiejun, a general of the Anti-Japanese Nationalist Army.
She had a good and peaceful life,
Worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune,
After that began writing and speaking full-time,
Dec. 1994,
She saw several photos from the time of the Nanjing Massacre:
"The bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians floated across the river,
And the severed heads,
The belly that has been cut open,
and nude women,
Their faces are distorted and deformed,
With something unforgettable
Expressions of pain and shame. ”
These scenes,
In her school library,
In the public library of the city,
In the world history textbook she learned,
Couldn't find anything,
Even her teacher didn't know anything about it.
She said that the Nazis slaughtered the Jews,
The world is a household name,
But in the West,
The facts of the Nanjing Massacre are unknown,
I, as a descendant of Chinese,
It is my responsibility to write it.
She spent three whole years on it.
In Nanjing, Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou and other places
Investigate again and again.
She searched and dug
A vast sea of archival historical materials,
Including unpublished diaries, notes,
Letters, government reports,
Transcript of the Trial of War Criminals in Tokyo
as well as original materials such as letters with Japanese veterans of World War II.
During this period,
She also unexpectedly found "China's Schindler"
Mr. John Rabe
The Diary of Rabe, a detailed account of the Nanjing Massacre
and another precious historical document, The Diary of Wittlin.
John Rabe and Wittlin
But writing is a nightmare process,
She not only had to face it, but she had to tell it one by one
Those heinous atrocities:
"Beheading, burial alive, burning alive, digging hearts,
Splitting corpses, drowning in cesspool..."
She often "shivered with anger, had nightmares of insomnia,
Weight loss, hair loss".
Dec. 1997,
After endless inner torment and grief,
Her book
The Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten Catastrophe of World War II
Officially published in the United States.
The publication of this book
Brought her a very high academic honor,
Chair of the Department of History at Harvard University
Professor William Kirby prefaces it
It called it "the first fully studied book."
An English Work on the Nanjing Massacre".
But her life has never been ever since
Plunged into endless fear.
Retaliation and harassment by japanese right-wing forces
And so it came.
She can only change her phone number frequently,
Never dare to reveal it at will
Information on husbands and children.
November 9, 2004,
Suffering from depression
And Zhang Chunru, who is exhausted,
In Galos, California
Suicide by drinking bullets in his car,
He is only 36 years old.
Her favorite son, who has just turned 2 years old.
Zhang Chunru's father with her bronze statue
She left a note before she died,
Ask her family to remember what she looked like before she got sick:
"I used to live seriously,
Aim, write and family
Sincere dedication. ”
December 13, 2014,
General Secretary Xi Jinping
On the Day of National Consecration, he said loudly:
"Since ancient times,
Peace is mankind's most enduring long-cherished wish...
The predation of the weak is not the way for human beings to coexist,
Military force is not a solution to human peace.
Peace rather than war,
Cooperation rather than confrontation,
It is the eternal theme of human social progress. ”
No one can be an island,
The whole of mankind is a community of destiny,
In the face of major disasters,
Peace-loving people can only watch over each other,
Give courage, determination, care,
in order to illuminate all the darkest moments.
Remember
Not just the pity of the nation,
There is also the admonition that backwardness must die.
commemorate
Not to preach the grudge of revenge,
Rather, it is to make a wish for revival:
Remember history and cherish peace.
(Transferred from: Beiyang Home)