Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre
The delegate stands in front of the wreath dedicated by SISU and mourns in a one-minute silence in honour of the victims. Drizzle matches the gloom felt by the delegate. (Photograph by Zhang Yizhe)
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27 May 2018 | By Liu Yumo, Yungchun Lhamo, Chen Siyu, Zhou Jiawen | Copyedited by GU Yiqing
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our teachers and 27 students from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) participated in a multilingual jouralism program in Nanjing from May 19 to 20 to facilitate global communication of Chinese history and culture.
During the two-day trip, SISU journalists visited the Nanjing Museum and the Memorial Hall of The Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders. They then arrived at the primary school of Jiang Chunfang, the first president of the Shanghai Russian Language School which later became SISU.
Based on SISU's mulitilingual websites, the goal of this trip is to spread Chinese stories in different languages and enrich students’ extracurricular life.
According to the organizer of this trip, Chen Xiaoli, deputy director of CPC Publicity, SISU aims to take advantage of students’ language and intercultural skills to voice what has happened and what’s happening in China to the whole world. Features written by the participants will come out on SISU’s multilingual websites and Wechat platform.
Chen introduces since next year will be the 70th anniversary of the founding of SISU, a lot of celebration will involve Jiang Chunfang, the first president of SISU.
During the World War II, the industrialization and scale of the murder was unprecedented. The killings were systematically conducted in virtually all areas of occupied Europe—more than 20 countries. Close to three million Jews in occupied Poland and between 700,000 and 2.5 million Jews in the Soviet Union were killed.
In late 1937, over a period of six weeks, Imperial Japanese Army forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of people–including both soldiers and civilians–in the Chinese city of Nanjing (or Nanking). The horrific events are known as the Nanjing Massacre or the Rape of Nanjing, as between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted. Nanjing, then the capital of Nationalist China, was left in ruins, and it would take decades for the city and its citizens to recover from the savage attacks.
Zhang Lianhong, professor of Nanjing Massacre Research Center in Nanjing Normal University, published an article in Beijing Daily, in which he used historical fact to show that the population of Nanjing urban area was between 367,000 and 635,000.
A small group of Western businessmen and missionaries, the International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone, attempted to set up a neutral area of the city that would provide refuge for Nanjing’s citizens. The safety zone, opened in November 1937, was roughly the size of New York’s Central Park and consisted of more than a dozen small refugee camps.
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Email : news@shisu.edu.cn
Address :550 Dalian Road (W), Shanghai 200083, China