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張純如：無法忘卻歷史的女子 The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking- A Memoir
出自張純如筆下的暢銷書《南京大屠殺》，永遠的改變了人們看待二戰亞洲戰場的視角。這一切始於一張照片，照片裏，數百名中國平民的屍體漂滿江面。張純如的靈魂因此被觸動。這些人是誰？她無法忘懷那一景象。她無法忘懷自己看到的一切。這之後的6年，張盈盈，張純如的母親，忍痛寫下了這本回憶錄，為讀者細膩地呈現了女兒的生平：童年時自辦的報紙，早年作為新聞記者的經歷，一名年輕歷史學者的冉冉升起，與兒子的自閉癥作鬥爭的歷程，以及悲劇性的自殺。《張純如：無法忘卻歷史的女子》一書充分證明，張純如確為她那一代人中的佼佼者，同時，這本書也展現了母女之間深切美麗的愛與疼痛。
Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen.
A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame?
Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris' home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris' legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget won 2012 Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Awards for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction category.
Iris Chang's best-selling book The Rape of Nanking forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen.
A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame?
Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris' home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris' legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget won 2012 Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Awards for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction category.
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