That
is a sad story. Before I tell you this heartbreaking story, please let
me introduce the author of < The Rape of Nanking>
Her
name is Iris Chang. She was born in New Jersey, a daughter of the
victims of the war. Her immigrant parents had escaped from China via
Taiwan to the United States During the Nanking Massacre.
After the book was published, one reporter asked Chang, “ Why did you write this book?”
She
replied: “ Nazi Germany is well known in the world, people know how
many died for this, but few people in the world know what Japanese Army
has done to Chinese.”
Her
grandpa worked for the Nanking government, when the Japanese army
entered the Nanking City, started being brutal and inhuman, he was
killed. Also a lot of the residents of Nanking city were killed by the
Japanese army with no reason. The Japanese army raped the women, sliced
the babies not just in half but in thirds and fourths, the pregnant
women were tormented by the Japanese army, further more, they buried
the young, strong men even they were alive and healthy.
There were more than 300 thousand people died in the Nanking massacre.
When
I was reading this book, I was suddenly in a panic that this is
terrifying disrespect for death and dying. I do know that was war, but
Japanese army should not have been so cruel.
However,
this is history, and we need to look forward and move forward. We would
love to join with others in a peaceful union, but history should not be
forgotten or denied.
We
didn’t make this up. In deed, there are outright pictures and documents
and empirical ways to tell the truth. Some people might think the
instrument in the quest of the harmful warfare is Chang’s personal
thoughts, for example, the what she was told by her parents who had
survived in the massacre. In fact, that is not true, the history is the
foolproof. Regardless of the admitting of the Japanese army’s enormity,
the harm has been created. We would never forget this jeremiad.
The
Japanese are very deceitful, they deny what they have done. And I think
they are standing in the wrong side of the history-like President Obama
said in the public when he became the president of the United States.
Please be honest, don’t be a betrayal of the history.
This
is impossible to deny. The 300000 people died, the city fell. The
tears, the blood, the lives, the screaming, the horror and the pain
would never be forgotten.
The
Japanese said, the massacre of Nanking did not happen, this is a
deception. The development of Japan is not bad, they don’t want the
world know they have ugly history, they want people believe that they
are a beautiful country. They tried to throw a veil over the true
history. And Iris Chang has dedicated her own life to get the truth
told, she took the victim’s pain as her own, her weapon is her word.
It’s
done, the page is filled, with blood and tears. She is gone, but the
book is still in bookstores, it is not vain, the world will finally
hear.
Before
I write this, I googled a lot of informations, because I don’t want to
make my word sounds like a false story. For instance, I read the
articles on wikipedia, in addition, I watched the related videos on
youtube. The American People also wrote something about the holocaust
on their own website, which has indicate the enormities that the
Japanese army had done to the Chinese in 1937. They did mention <The
Rape of Nanking>
I
love my country more than anything in the world, I never bought Japan
airline ticket when I went back to China, I don’t buy Japanese
products, things made in China are good enough to use. People may say I
am insane, but that is the way I love my country. I wish I was able to
write a history book as a simple instrument for political deception.
I am proud that my country is booming.
To my well-beloved great writer-Iris Chang.
Epilogue
Chang
suffered a nervous breakdown. Before she began to write the book, she
made several trips to China in order to find the victims of the
massacre in Nanking city, she was told a lot of heartbreaking stories.
In her mother’s word is:: “The book made her sad.” After the book was
published, Chang received hate mails,threatening notes on her car and
believed her phone was tapped. She would respond overwhelmingly to any
question of the validity of her work. Succumbing to her battle with
depression, Chang laid hands on herself in the winter of 2003 in
California, in age 28.
You
gave your voice to the voiceless, cried out for justice. Even though,
you left behind, but your spirit lives on, we would pass it on.