Cruel historical facts and harassment and revenge led to Zhang Chunru's mental breakdown.

In the United States and the western world, Zhang Chunru's occupation is the work of a lonely person. She was exposed to bloody historical facts. During the writing of the book "Nanjing Massacre", Zhang Chunru often trembled with anger, lost sleep, had nightmares, lost weight and lost his hair.

She faced a cruel and bloody history. The Nanjing Massacre is an encyclopedia of torture, which she must specifically face and describe: beheading, burning alive, burying alive, drowning in a cesspit, digging out the heart, dismembering the body ... After writing, she has to face retaliation and harassment from Japanese right-wing forces.

She keeps receiving threatening letters and phone calls, which makes her constantly change her phone number and dare not disclose the information of her husband and children casually. She once told her friends that she had been living in fear for years.

As she began to write about the history of American soldiers captured in World War II being abused by the Japanese army in the Philippines, the cruel historical facts she was exposed to once again triggered her illness, which led to her depression. In addition, Zhang Chunru suffers from migraine, which is a sign of depression. Great illness hurt her, and her depression deepened.

In July 2003, when Zhang Chunru was on a research trip for her fourth book, she had a nervous breakdown and was admitted to the hospital. Zhang Chunru's husband BrettDouglas reported Zhang Chunru's disappearance to the police at 5: 30am on October 9th, 2004/KLOC-0. Douglas told the police that the last time he saw his wife was at 2 am that day. In her last words to her family, Zhang Chunru said that she hoped they would remember what she looked like before she got sick: devoting herself to life and career, writing and family.

20041October 9th, 165438, Zhang Chunru, a woman who campaigned for 300,000 murders in Nanjing, parked her white car on an abandoned roadside, then took out a pistol and ended her 36-year-old life.

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From 65438 to 0997, the book "The Nanjing Massacre-The Forgotten Massacre" written by Ms. Zhang Chunru was published in new york, which caused a very strong response in new york and the western region.

Two years ago, from 65438 to 0995, Zhang Chunru, who was only 27 years old, bravely chose to face the forgotten catastrophe of World War II, personally visited and investigated, and wrote the book "Nanjing Massacre-Forgotten Massacre" with blood and tears, which opened a door to memory for the western world for 60 years.

Zhang Chunru, who has been campaigning for the 300,000 murders in Nanjing, has suffered unimaginable threats and pressures. At the age of 36, young flower of life died young.

In an interview video before his death, Zhang Chunru talked about the origin of writing this book. "When I was a little girl growing up in a university town in the midwest, my parents first told me about the Nanjing Massacre. My parents are science professors, and they always tell me what it was like when they grew up in wartime China. "

Zhang Chunru's grandparents left Nanjing one month before the massacre. Her family's memory of Nanjing in 1937 inspired Zhang Chunru to uncover the truth behind the tragedy.

1994 12 10, the 57th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, the community service activity center in Cupertino, California, USA held a photo exhibition to commemorate the victims of the Nanjing Massacre, which triggered Zhang Chunru's action. On July 23rd, 1995, Zhang Chunru went to Nanking to look for the survivors of the Holocaust.

The process of writing is painful. Zhang Chunru's mother, Ms. Zhang Yingying, said, "She has collected a lot of information in the archives, which is a layer-by-layer case and a report of each victim.

For example, one day, one day, this person was raped, and there were many pieces. She looked at it case by case. She read it and told me that she was numb. I said, do you still want to write? It hurts. She said, compared with them, what am I? "

Zhang Chunru found letters and diaries of missionaries in Yale University, including Minnie Vautrin, George Fitch and robert wilson. She also watched the film of Reverend John Magee. Later, john rabe's granddaughter gave her a copy of Rabe's Diary.

"She worked from morning till night, and I remember her interviewing the victims, which made her very sad," Zhang Chunru's husband Brett Douglas recalled. When Zhang Chunru came into contact with these pains, she felt the pain from the bottom of her heart. When she writes, she is full of anger and pain. She turned the pain of communicating with the victims into her own. The whole writing process of this book is an extremely painful experience in many ways.

The publication of this book has aroused a strong response from the international community.

Finally, on the 60th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre in 1997, Zhang Chunru's Nanjing Massacre-The Forgotten Massacre was published in the United States. Her books have been on the best-seller list in The New York Times for several months, which has made outstanding contributions to the understanding of the Nanjing Massacre in western society. Not only do more Americans know this history, but now more and more Asians know that history through this book.

Susan Nabil, the editor of the book, said: "The original readers of this book are all from China, but in fact they are women from China." Later it influenced Japan. Some Japanese children will come up to Zhang Chunru and say, "I'm Japanese, but I want to know the truth. We can't find the truth in my country. "

Continue to speak out in threats and intimidation

Zhang Chunru's book comprehensively recorded the atrocities committed by Japanese invaders in Nanking, which made Japanese right-wingers crazy. She received a threatening phone call from Japanese right-wingers. But the threat didn't stop Zhang Chunru from talking. She appeared on a radio and television program with the Japanese ambassador to the United States.

Angry at Japan's refusal to apologize: "I didn't hear the word' apology'. If he sincerely said' I personally feel sorry for the actions of the Japanese army during World War II', I would take it as an apology, but once again we heard the words' regret',' regret' and' something unfortunate happened'.

Zhang Chunru said in an interview before his death, "I don't want this history to disappear, and I don't want so many people's lives to disappear, so I wrote this book. What really bothers me is some powerful forces in Japan. They want this history to disappear. I think this is an insult to the victim. I think everyone should stop genocide and should not let it be forgotten. "

Finally, due to depression, overwork and physical fatigue, Zhang Chunru had a mental breakdown. On June 9, 2004, he shot himself in his car in California, at the age of 36.

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