Who's Zhang Chunru? introduce

Zhang Chunru (iris? 1968.3.28 —— 2004.11.9

Born on March 28th, 1968, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.

1968- 1989 He grew up with his parents who studied physics and microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1989, received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois.

1990, a reporter for Chicago Tribune, writes important press releases. Engaged.

199 1 received a master's degree in writing from Johns Hopkins university. Married Dr. BrettDouglas, an electrical engineer, and moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in July.

1995, freelance writer, writing articles for Chicago Tribune, new york Times and Associated Press. In winter, I finished the preparatory work for the book Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre in the National Archives and the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., and went to Beijing, Shanghai and Hangzhou for a six-week in-depth investigation.

1996, the mystery of Qian Xuesen, the father of Chinese missiles, was published.

1July, 1997, went to Nanjing, China to investigate the historical materials of the Nanjing Massacre.

1February 1997, 17 Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre was published.

1998, won the annual National Women's Award of the All-China Women's Federation.

1In August, 1999, "Nanjing Massacre: The Forgotten World War II Massacre" was filmed as a TV program and became one of the special topics of the Historical Exploration Channel.

On May 3, 2002, he received an honorary doctorate from college of wooster, Ohio.

In August 2002, my son ChristopherDouglas was born.

On April 28th, 2003, The History of Chinese Americans was published.

1oct 9, 2004 165438+ committed suicide with a pistol in a car in Gallos, California.

Zhang Chunru's family background

Zhang Chunru was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Illinois. 1989 After graduating from the University of Illinois, he worked as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune. Later, he got a writing degree from Johns Hopkins University and began to write and give lectures full-time.

Zhang Chunru was born in a scholarly family, and his grandfather was Zhang Tiejun, the general of the Anti-Japanese National Army. Later, he was the editor-in-chief of China Daily in Taiwan Province Province. His father is a "top scholar" in the Department of Physics of National Taiwan University, and his monograph Quantum Field Theory is quite influential in the field of theoretical physics in the United States. Zhang Chunru's mother has been engaged in biochemical research.

He was famous for the Nanjing Massacre and committed suicide.