Details
This book records the historical facts of the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of a survivor and is of high value among the literature on history. It tells a common but different life story of CHANG Zhiqiang who experienced the massacre and survived: how did a 9-year-old war orphan manage to survive with no relatives to rely on? How did he start his career and get married? Why does the aged CHANG find inner peace at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders? And what has he done to remind the world of the traumatic history? This book provides a new perspective and a window for readers to learn about the Nanjing Massacre.
About Author
CHANG Xiaomei, born in 1960 in Nanjing, is the youngest daughter of CHANG Zhiqiang. She takes a keen interest in literature. As a daughter, she has accompanied her father to attend most of his testimony activities and thus understands his psychological status and feeling. In minute descriptions, the book touches the innermost being of CHANG Zhiqiang and reproduces his personal memory as a survivor of the Nanjing Massacre.