(A Chinese -American Mr Lu Zhaoning (Left) donates books to Jiang Dongmen Museum in Nanjing. Photo: Longhoo)
A Chinese-American man has donated a batch of English books on the 1937 Nanjing massacre by Japanese troops, to the city's museum in memory of the victims.
Lu Zhaoning, a Chinese-American who was born in Nanjing, the provincial capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, sent the academic works and literary books to the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
The books, such as "The Devil of Nanking", "Nanking, Anatomy of an Atrocity", "Nanking Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame" and "Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing", are written by scholars, journalists and authors from Japan, China and America.
On Dec. 13, 1937, intruding Japanese troops occupied Nanjing and launched a six-week long massacre. Historical records show that more than 300,000 Chinese people, not only captured soldiers but also civilians, were slain in the holocaust.
"The books provide new evidence about the atrocities that Japanese troops committed in 1937," said Zhu Chengshan, curator of the Memorial Hall.
In 2004, Lu donated English books including Chinese-American writer Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking - The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II" to the museum.
