Nanjing Massacre records compiled
- By Pang Li
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China.org.cn, July 7, 2011
The final 23 volumes of a collection of historical records on the Nanjing Massacre were released yesterday by Jiangsu People's Publishing House, ending a 10-year academic effort led by historian Zhang Xianwen, the Yangtse Evening News reported.
The staggering 40-million-word, 78-volume series collect a wide range of historical materials related to the Nanjing Massacre, in which around 300,000 Chinese were believed to be killed by Japanese armies in a six-week rampage in 1937.
The project involved about 100 scholars and professors who went to the U.S., Germany, the UK, Japan, Russia, Italy and Taiwan to collect materials. It is a comprehensive collection of first-hand accounts of perpetrators, victims and third parties, including personal diaries and news stories.
Zhang said that the last 23 volumes, including six of special collections, mainly include materials collected from abroad, two-thirds of which were rarely seen before.
"We included for the first time news stories on Japan's atrocities by Italian and Soviet reporters," Zhang said.
"It reflected that not just China and America were concerned about the incident." Zhang also said he plans to write an abridged edition of the collection for ordinary readers in the next two years.
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