What are the contemporary heroines?

She is a weak woman, who fought a "war of words" with the Japanese government for eight years. Behind her are a group of Japanese germ warfare victims in their seventies and eighties.

American historian Sheldon said, "As long as two kings choose such China women, they can sink the Japanese."

She is Ms. Wang Xuan, the head of the plaintiff group in the germ warfare litigation of 73 1 Army!

Starting from 1995, Wang Xuan gave up his teaching career and generous treatment in China, and persistently embarked on the road of claiming compensation against Japan, determined to avenge countless Japanese victims. In order to investigate and collect evidence, Wang Xuan traveled between China and Japan all the year round.

She left countless footprints all over the country, and the collected pictures, materials and investigation tapes piled up, which integrated the crimes of the Japanese army invading China in germ warfare.

In Japan, in order to obtain more convincing testimony, Wang Xuan took pains to find officers and men of 73 1 Army to testify in court. In order to expose the crimes of 73 1 troops to the world, Wang Xuan held exhibitions, speeches and seminars from China to Japan, the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, striving for international support and devoting all his time and energy to this action. ...

Pay attention to your compatriots and don't leave the victims behind.

For the victims around him, in fact, all China people can learn about his history, his hometown and the people around him. First of all, we should pay attention to our compatriots and the victims in society.

P.S. remembers reading a news that when Teacher Wang Xuan held dozens of court sessions, there was no China person in the audience, and she could hardly hold on.

1995, an accidental news, let her find the value of life.

She saw a piece of news from an English newspaper: the first international seminar on 73 1 Army was held in Harbin. At the meeting, two Japanese reported that they went to Chongshan Village in Yiwu, Zhejiang Province to investigate the plague epidemic caused by 73 1 Bacteriological War. Chongshan Village in Yiwu is the hometown of Wang Xuan's father and the place where she has lived for many years.

1942 One day, a Japanese plane flew low over the small and medium-sized village of Zhejiang. 10 days later, a terrible plague broke out in the village, and more than 400 villagers died painfully. At that time, the villagers did not know the cause of the disaster. A Japanese army claiming to be an epidemic prevention unit came to Chongshan Village and turned it into an experimental field for vivisection. Eight relatives of Wang Xuanjia were killed. When I was a child, my father roughly told the story of my little uncle being tortured to death by the plague. Her father's painful and horrible expression made her unforgettable.

On the recommendation of the villagers, he became the head of the plaintiff group.

From 1996, Wang Xuan officially participated in the Japanese civil germ warfare investigation team. She is proficient in Japanese and understands Zhejiang dialect. Only she can communicate with villagers without barriers. The farmers in Chongshan Village want to seek justice from the Japanese government for their ancestors, but they don't know how to do it. On the recommendation of villagers, Wang Xuan became the head of the plaintiff's group 180, the victim of germ warfare in Zhejiang and Hunan.

Wang Xuan traveled frequently between China and Japan, carefully searching for hard evidence, and traveled all over China, exposing the germ warfare crimes of Japanese invaders again and again. Except for a small amount of overseas Chinese funding later, all of them were at their own expense. Investigation and litigation have become the core of life, and personal savings and work income are almost involved. She has to bear, and there are still many aspects of incomprehension and cold reception.

In the judgment of first instance on August 27th, 2002, the Tokyo District Court ruled for the first time that the Japanese government had developed bacteriological weapons and carried out bacteriological warfare in China. The dirty truth that was concealed for a long time was finally recognized as a fact. This is an important milestone achieved by Wang Xuan after years of hard work.

Nevertheless, the first-instance judgment rejected the plaintiff's claim on the grounds of not recognizing the individual's right to compensation for damages. So, with the appeal, the second trial continued.

Wang Xuan regards the litigation process as a way to let the world know the historical truth. At the age of 50, I'm afraid she will fight germ warfare for the rest of her life.

Wang Xuan entered the Prime Minister's Office with 10 people, including the plaintiff, and petitioned the Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura. Two cabinet officials attended the reception. Facing the cabinet officials, Wang chose fluent Japanese semantics and said sternly, I stand in front of you, representing neither Japanese nor Japanese, but a person.

Collecting information and evidence through 60 years of fog is a very difficult process. Wang Xuan said that she knows that the people of the whole country are very supportive in spirit, but the spiritual support is far from enough. She wants everyone to take action. The victims are all 80-and 90-year-olds with very limited energy. If the younger generation takes an indifferent wait-and-see attitude again, this matter can't continue.

Behind Wang Xuan are some victims of Japanese germ warfare in their seventies and eighties, nine of whom were victims of the germ warfare in Ningbo that year. But now, there are fewer and fewer people in her "complaining army" and fewer and fewer people in Ningbo. After eight years of litigation, some plaintiffs have passed away.

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Perhaps this generation rarely knows that there is such a lady Wang Xuan walking alone!

Iris Chang

-In memory of Chinese American woman writer Zhang Chunru.

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1994 65438+In February, when IRISCHANG saw the black photo of the Nanjing Massacre for the first time in her life in Cupertino, a suburb of San Jose in the center of Silicon Valley, California, she felt extremely angry, which was much stronger than IRISCHANG's.

The emotional intensity that can be produced. Nanjing did exist, and the Holocaust did exist, but in all English non-fiction books, in the nearly 60 years after the Holocaust, there was no mention of this history that should not be forgotten.

199765438+February, 60th anniversary of Nanjing Massacre. Two years later, Zhang Chunru visited 14 survivors, consulted thousands of pages of historical documents, and published her English version of Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre. As soon as this book came out, it shocked English-speaking countries, ranking first in the American charts for several months in a row and was named the most popular book of the year. In the following years, it was reprinted more than ten times, with a print run of over 500,000 copies. With her own efforts and courage, she faced up to that terrible history and told the world: "The chronicle of human cruelty to our compatriots is a long and sad story. If we want to compare such horror stories, then in the history of the world, few atrocities can match the Nanjing Massacre during World War II in intensity and scale.

Zhang Chunru said: "Forgetting the Holocaust is the second massacre." After listening to the Japanese right-wing Fiction of Nanjing Massacre and reading her book, American critic George Will said, "Because of Zhang's book, she ended the second rape in Nanjing." When the truth of the massacre is hidden, the massacre will always be a massacre. Only when the Holocaust is known to the world can ghosts stay away from hunting and become a historical freeze.

She may not even know how many people in China accidentally picked up the book "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre" and never put it down again. After reading it, they burst into tears. There are too many such stories and people, in America, in France, in Malaysia, on airplanes, in bookstores and on the Internet. There are old overseas Chinese who have emigrated overseas for more than 30 years, and there are fourth-generation Chinese in Nanyang. They can't stop reading, because those words are painful and burning, because they are branded on their roots.

An old overseas Chinese said: As an "old overseas Chinese" who has lived in the United States for 30 years, I have "reasons" not to care about China culture. For example: I feel far away from the history and society of China; Has been naturalized and rooted; Real life is busy, how can we have time to think about such mysterious and abstract things? Besides, the China issue is so complicated, what role can a person on the edge of culture like me play? However, on that day in April of 17, after I listened to Zhang Chunru's speech on the Nanjing Massacre at Berkeley University, all my "reasons" had to be thrown into the wastebasket ... If Zhang Chunru and Rabe care so much about China, as an "old overseas Chinese" who ate China's milk and grew up in China's cultural soil and later immigrated to the United States, there is really no reason not to care about everything in China.

However, while winding countless compatriots with silk thread, looking back at this darkest and most horrible history in human history, Zhang Chunru is also enduring great mental pain. Who can face his own kind, and when his own kind is brutally ravaged by atrocities, he will not feel torn and his eyes will be torn? In the process of writing the book Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre, Zhang Chunru often "trembled with anger, suffered from insomnia and nightmares, lost weight and lost all his hair". She has fulfilled a responsibility for all of us that has not been completed for 60 years, so she has suffered for all of us.

After writing the second book, Zhang Chunru turned his attention to the United States 150 years ago. There, there are also a group of silent compatriots. As coolies, a large number of Chinese laborers entered the United States from the middle of the19th century and worked as gold miners and railway laborers. From 65438 to 0865, the number of immigrants in China surged to 50,000, 90% of whom were young men. In the same year, the Central Pacific Railway Company recruited the first batch of 50 workers from China. Seeing that China people can bear hardships, their wages are low and they are obedient, the company began to recruit a large number of people from China, and a total of 654.38 million China workers participated in the railway construction in the United States.

The contribution of China people has made great contributions to the railway construction in the United States. Their fighting spirit and working standards even surpassed those of Irish workers. 1869 In April, a boss who hired laborers from China said that his workers could lay 10 miles of tracks every day. Another boss who hired Irish workers didn't believe it. The former expressed his willingness to gamble with $654.38+$00,000. As a result, China laborers laid more than 65,438+00 miles of railway tracks in 65,438+02 hours and 45 minutes.

After the completion of the railway, Americans worried that China workers would take their jobs, and the United States began to exclude China. 1882 passed the Chinese Exclusion Act to expel Chinese from the United States. 150 years have passed, but these compatriots who have worked hard and made outstanding contributions to the construction of the United States have been forgotten, as if they never existed. Zhang Chunru wrote her third book, History of Chinese Americans, for them and for herself. Zhang Chunru said that when she was 12 years old, a white classmate asked her, which side would you stand on if there was a war between China and the United States? Zhang Chunru said that until now she didn't know how to answer. This incident made her realize that although she was born in the United States, in the social definition of Americans, she is not an American, but an American from China. Therefore, in order to make people realize that Chinese are actually part of Americans and they have made indelible contributions to the development of the United States, she wrote this book.

Through this book, Zhang Chunru once again stood on the opposite side of IRISCHANG. She realized that "the experience of China people in the United States is not a gradual single line. As one of the model ethnic minorities, they have not gradually developed from the persecuted bottom to the top like some ethnic minorities. China people are in a cyclical cycle in the United States, and American society has been spinning in tolerance, acceptance, doubt and fear. " She still stood on both sides of the mirror at the same time, struggling painfully. Zhang Chunru once said that she regards the history of Chinese Americans as "her private love letter to the United States", but how many people can understand this feeling?

Zhang Chunru is on the road again as an Irishman. A research tour of her fourth book. This book mainly describes the officers and men of the American tank battalion who fought against the Japanese army in Bataan Peninsula, Philippines during World War II. They were later detained and brutally abused by the Japanese army. During an investigation trip, Zhang Chunru collapsed physically and mentally and had to be hospitalized. After being hospitalized, she continued to struggle with depression. From the "Nanjing Massacre" to her recent story about the Japanese mistreatment of captured American soldiers in World War II, it is a cruel and bloody history. These contents are also related to Zhang Chunru's etiology.

The tragedy finally happened. On October 9th, 2004/KLOC-0, Zhang Chunru committed suicide with a pistol in his car in Gallos, California. In her last letter to her family, she said that she hoped they would remember Zhang Chunru before her illness, Zhang Chunru who devoted herself to her life, and Zhang Chunru who devoted herself to her career, writing and family.

Who does she want her family to remember? Zhang Chunru or Ireland? She lost the name Zhang Chunru, she found it again, and she found two pieces of history for us. But it seems that this is still not the answer she wants, and she is still looking for it in this world. Now there is no Zhang Chunru in the world, and we can't put our sadness and gratitude behind her. Only the wind is blowing from a distance, perhaps only in that distant wind, and her breath, and the steps she is looking for.

Zhang Chunru's son is Christopher Douglas, two years and three months old.