The life span of a person is only a hundred years, so people's memories can stay for a hundred years. Even if they are told to the next generation, they will inevitably miss it, so the importance of historians is highlighted. Historians use books (bamboo slips) to record what has happened, allowing future generations to learn their stories for hundreds or even thousands of years. If there is no record of the Grand Historian without Sima Qian , it will be difficult for us to understand that matter, so the importance of historians is indispensable. Of course, China and foreign exchanges are close now, and only we know it, it is still not possible, so some people need to translate history books into foreign languages so that the whole world can see them. Today we will take you to learn about the story of a weak woman, see how she told foreigners about the Nanjing Massacre, and see what her ending will be.
The late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China period were too chaotic, so many Chinese immigrated abroad, and Zhang Chunru is an American Chinese born in New Jersey . She has been in journalism after graduating from the University of Illinois, and later received a writing degree from Johns Hopkins University before starting writing full-time. There are many ways to shock the world. A general starts a massacre to shock the world, a politician releases a major plan to shock the world, and a businessman makes huge profits to shock the world, but Zhang Chunru shocks the world after only writing one book.
In 1994, Zhang Chunru saw photos of the Nanjing Massacre. The atrocities recorded in the photos have touched people's hearts, but what is really sad is that such a great tragedy was actually selectively ignored by the world. During World War II, Germany's massacre of Jews was widely known. Why was Japan's massacre of Chinese people forgotten at the same time? This history is not recorded in almost all English books, and this catastrophe has become a forgotten World War II catastrophe. The West only knows that the bones in the Auschwitz concentration camp are piled up into mountains, but they don’t know that the Yangtze River water on the edge of Nanjing is stained with blood. In order to make the world remember this atrocity, Zhang Chunru began to write books about the Nanjing Massacre.
In a society where material flows, it is obviously unpaid for a young man to write a historical work with precious events. Young people at that time all aimed at making money, and rarely wrote like Zhang Chunru to vent her dissatisfaction (she was only 25 years old at that time). But Zhang Chunru still did this. In order to write a book, Zhang Chunru worked more than ten hours a day, and also contacted some Japanese veterans from World War II and some survivors who had experienced the atrocities in Nanjing, just to highly restore the Japanese atrocities at that time. When Zhang Chunru was writing books, he referred to "Rabe's Diary" and "Weitlin's Diary", and read a large number of related books and searched for survivors. He finally wrote a book "Nanjing Atrocities", also known as "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe".
Since the end of World War II, fewer and fewer reports on Japan's invasion of China have been condemning Nazi Germany's atrocities during World War II. Because China's power of discourse was not strong at that time, few mainstream media criticized Japan's militarist atrocities in China. Zhang Chunru's book became a New York Times bestseller in just one month and became the most popular historical work for readers of the year. This period of history was also valued after that, with more and more books and reports on it, and the Nanjing Massacre was no longer a forgotten catastrophe.
Because this history was too heavy, Zhang Chunru suffered from depression after finishing writing, and at that time, Japanese right-wing force kept harassing and threatening her. In the end, Zhang Chunru was hospitalized due to a mental breakdown, but soon the hospital found that Zhang Chunru was missing. When he found out again, Zhang Chunru had already committed suicide in his car. It's a bit weird that a mentally broken patient appears in his car and commits suicide with a pistol. Zhang Chunru's suicide note mentioned that she was targeted by an organization and was also followed. The CIA is not going to do this yet, the only possibility is the Japanese spy.This woman who seeks justice for the 300,000 evil spirits in Nanjing has passed away and slowly comes out of our sight. Perhaps she will be completely forgotten by us in a while.
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