People all over the world know the history of the genocide of Jews , but except China, few people know about the Nanjing Massacre. From December 13, 1937 to December 13, 2021, it has been 84 years since the Nanjing Massacre . Every mention is a pain in the hearts of Chinese people. If " Rabe's Diary " opened the preface of the Nanjing Massacre to Western countries , then the protagonist of today's story, , gave the West an in-depth understanding of what Japan did in Nanjing.
And she even exposed to the world what the Japanese army did in China during World War II , what did she do? Please finish reading today's story with a calm heart, let us walk into Zhang Chunru and her Nanjing Massacre.
1: Zhang Chunru and the Nanjing Massacre
Since when the Second World War began, every country has a different answer. The United States said it was since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. And Zhang Chunru told us: The beginning of the Second World War, for Asia, began with Japan's invasion and occupation of China in 1931, which was the first step for Japanese military control of East Asia.
Zhang Chunru’s grandfather was an anti-Japanese warrior, Although Zhang Chun is a Chinese American. But his parents told Zhang Chunru from a young age about her grandfather's story, and the city that was stained with blood overnight. This is also the first time Zhang Chunru heard of Nanjing and the Nanjing Massacre.
Later, Chunru Zhang grew up slowly, and received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois . After graduation, she worked in the Chicago Tribune, and then learned about the history of the Nanjing Massacre Everybody knows.
In 1994, she saw the black and white photo of the Nanjing Massacre for the first time in California. The memory of her childhood was aroused, and the blood city mentioned by 's parents appeared in front of her . She was very shocked and very angry , this period of tragic history that clearly exists, why is denied, and why is not mentioned in all non-fiction Western writings in this history.
This piece of history should not be forgotten by the world. Why is only the victim licking his wound quietly . In 1995, she started research on the Nanjing Massacre . And in the winter of that year,Zhang Chunru completed the preliminary preparations for "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe", a book that made the world admire the Nanjing Massacre.
Zhang Chunru even said that the content of this book is the "forgotten massacre" of . Zhang Chunru stepped into the land of the motherland in 1997, went to Nanjing to conduct a data survey . At that time, Zhang Chunru was only 25 years old, and people at that age were all running for the future. But Zhang Chunru firmly said: I just want people in this world to know everything that happened in Nanjing in 1937.
Leaving the United States where she had lived since childhood and arriving in Nanjing, felt extremely uncomfortable with the weather in Nanjing. , a city that is as hot as a furnace, tells Zhang Chunru every brick and every tile. What have been experienced before. So in that weather, Zhang Chunru forcibly endured his physical discomfort and worked more than 10 hours a day.
In order to let the West know more about the grief of the Nanjing Massacre , she contacted all the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre, and went to visit in person, only for to hear the dusty history from them. Zhang Chun at that time was as good as Chinese, and couldn't understand Nanjing dialect .So she recorded what the survivors said, and then asked someone to translate it a little bit.
Interview survivors, find out where the Japanese atrocities took place at the time, and browse all the information that can be found in the country. In this way, the paranoid Zhang Chunru endured the pain caused by inconsistent water and soil, and recorded the history of the Nanjing Massacre bit by bit. Associate Professor Yang Xiaming used to be Zhang Chunru's translator. According to his memories, she was very persistent, and she must break the casserole and ask the end. And she is very rigorous, often verifies the data collected by the United States with China.
2: "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe"
Maybe you don’t know yet, Zhang Chunru is happiest in collecting information, is the one who made the Chinese find John Rabe diary written by Rabe. Not only that, she also found a heroine — Minnie Vautrin , she was the dean of Jinling Women's College of Arts and Sciences at that time, protected a large number of Nanjing women at the time. It is because of her women who can avoid the ravages of the Japanese army, and her "Vitlin's Diary" written by , this diary records in detail 's personal atrocities in China that she saw in Nanjing during her time in Nanjing,Some of them are her personal experience, and it also records how the Japanese army carried out cruel colonial rule in China during those years.
After Zhang Chunru's efforts, finally released the English version of "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe" in 1997. For three years, Zhang Chunru was in pain every day. Looking at the shocking materials and listening to the sorrowful voices, she never knew that a city, , could go through such hardships, and a country that was so humiliated.
This book has been widely read by readers from all walks of life in the West as soon as it was released. Not only that, is also translated into multiple languages for sale. In the face of all kinds of evidence, has only one country that still refuses to recognize it. To bluntly claim that this book is a wrong description. And they kept saying: The Japanese government has repeatedly apologized for the atrocities committed by the Japanese army.
Shouldn't the apology be an apology to China? Has one of China's 1.4 billion people heard your apology? What we heard is apologized by some Japanese with a conscience. Are these people the whole of Japan? Isn't the Japanese government and others human? The above are just my questions, and the answers are comfortable.
Zhang Chunru's book resounded throughout the world at that time, but also shocked the world. There is only one country. In the ten years since this book was released,There is no sound at all. They did contact Zhang Chunru in 1998 to translate and publish it in Japan. The condition attached to was to add Japanese critical text. Zhang Chunru immediately objected, and has lost its voice in Japan since then.
According to Wu Zhaohong, an overseas Chinese in Japan: he heard from the older generations about the Nagasaki atomic bomb incident , Tokyo air raid , attack on Pearl Harbor and so on . What are these battles? either exists as a victim or exists as a winner.
While Japan has always placed itself in the position of a victim, it is actually a complete aggressor . "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Catastrophe" received a lot of response. Later, Zhang Chunru set out to write a new book about the mistreatment of captured American soldiers by the Japanese. originally thought that this book could still make Zhang Chunru’s name resounding in China.
But since the release of Zhang Chunru's book, Zhang Chunru has been threatened by the Japanese right wing. They called and forced Zhang Chunru to stop the release of "Nanjing Massacre" and threatened Zhang Chunru with her family. This led to Zhang Chunru constantly changing his contact information. But she never bowed to the evil forces.
is just that when she was studying the historical data of the Nanjing Massacre, had seriously affected her emotions. When inquiring about the historical data on the abuse of captured American soldiers by the Japanese army, the historical data she saw caused her depression to erupt completely.
III: "Those who forget history will repeat the same mistakes of history"
Not only that, Zhang Chunru once had a mental breakdown and was sent to the hospital. In the end, failed to keep a person who dared to tell the truth in this world . Zhang Chunru committed suicide with a pistol in his car on November 9, 2004. There is a sentence in her suicide note: I feel that a mysterious organization is following me, walking on the street and being followed by others, I cannot face the pain and torture in the future.
In this way, Zhang Chunru ended his life in great pain. She awakened the Chinese people to re-understand the Nanjing Massacre, and awakened the world's understanding of the Nanjing Massacre. The history that shouldn't have been forgotten reappears before our eyes. Zhang Chunru devoted all his energy to the great cause of carrying history.
Zhang Chunru said in the book that 's death toll in Nanjing, China at that time surpassed some European countries, and even some countries’ total death toll in World War II was inferior. Japanese massacre in Nanjing. also tells us in the book that estimated that 20,000-80,000 Chinese women would be raped by the Japanese at that time. Not only that, after the rape, many Japanese soldiers cruelly dug out their internal organs, cut off their breasts, and nailed them to the wall alive. Such cruel incidents are simply a great atrocities in human history.
We only know that the Japanese massacred and buried them alive in Nanjing, did not know that they used a hook to pass through the tongues of the Chinese, hang them up and bury them alive to their waists, and then laughed at the German black. Bei bites them. A historian once used estimates to show us how cruel the Nanjing Massacre was.
He said: If the victims of the Nanjing Massacre stand together, the length of the team can be from Nanjing to Hangzhou , and the total distance of is 322 kilometers . If the blood on their bodies is mixed together, they can weigh 1200 tons , and their corpses can be filled with 2500 train cars even more. Although in the 20th century, the largest massacre by was Hitler , which killed 6 million Jews.
But that was the result of years of accumulation, and the Japanese massacre in Nanjing was carried out within a few weeks. I would like to tell you in detail how Zhang Chunru wrote "Nanjing Massacre", But Zhang Chunru’s mother said that Zhang Chunru always wanted to a world-class Japanese invasion of China, because she hopes that more people will know that history, remember that history, and that history that shouldn’t be forgotten. .
Zhang Chunru wanted to let the world know what Japan did to China , and wanted China to remember its grief forever, "Those who forget history will repeat the mistakes of history" This is what George Santayana said, and is the motto of Zhang Chunru. Up to now, there is still a statue of Zhang Chunru in the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre.
So She definitely hopes that all Chinese people can remember Duan's sad experience more, will be very happy. And what Japan did can force a woman out of depression many years later, I just want to say: has a fable in China, called "Ears and Bells", welcome to take a look.
Zhang Chunru’s story is over, What do you want to say about that tragic history , please leave a message in the comment area. This article is originally created by super history, welcome to pay attention, and bring you a long knowledge!
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