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Chinese exhibition on Nanjing Massacre opened in France
(Xinhua) 12:23, October 23, 2016
PARIS, Oct. 22 -- A Chinese exhibition entitled "Common Witness: The Rape of Nankingor Nanjing Massacre" opened Saturday in the Caen Memorial in Caen, a town innorthwestern France.
It is the first exhibition in Europe to display China's collection on the massacre since theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added the NanjingMassacre to its Memory of the World Register in 2015.
The exhibition spans 800 square meters, with over 270 photos, 50 pieces of physicalevidence and videos on the Nanjing Massacre, which lasted from Dec. 13, 1937 to January1938, during which more than 300,000 civilians and Chinese unarmed soldiers were killedby Japanese invaders, said Zhang Jianjun, general director of the Nanjing MassacreMemorial Hall.
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, which co-organized the exhibition with the CaenMemorial, is China's largest museum dedicated to this massacre.
This exhibition mainly introduces the massacre in the eyes of European and Americanwitnesses who were in Nanjing during the unusual inhuman tragedy, presenting originalcontents from the archives in the form of daily notes, letters, documents, photos and videosmade by these witnesses, Zhang said.
"We welcome this exhibition for our public to learn that the Second World War indeedstarted in July 1937. In China, your people, like all peoples in the war, including theJapanese people, suffered terribly from this inhumanity of man to man," said StephaneGrimaldi, general director of the Caen Memorial, during the exhibition's inaugurationceremony.
"History does not change. History is not forgotten. It sheds light on the future. It is inremembering the cruelty of war that we understand better the value of peace. We meethere today, not to perpetuate the hatred, but to enable our future generations to live inpeace," said Chinese Ambassador to France Zhai Jun.
The on-site visitors are deeply attracted by this exhibition. "This is my first visit to anexhibition about the Nanjing Massacre. The number of people who were killed, the littlereaction the massacre has caused internationally ... are surprising," a 30-year-old Frenchvisitor Daniel told Xinhua.
http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1023/c90000-9131381.html
(Xinhua) 12:23, October 23, 2016
PARIS, Oct. 22 -- A Chinese exhibition entitled "Common Witness: The Rape of Nankingor Nanjing Massacre" opened Saturday in the Caen Memorial in Caen, a town innorthwestern France.
It is the first exhibition in Europe to display China's collection on the massacre since theUnited Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization added the NanjingMassacre to its Memory of the World Register in 2015.
The exhibition spans 800 square meters, with over 270 photos, 50 pieces of physicalevidence and videos on the Nanjing Massacre, which lasted from Dec. 13, 1937 to January1938, during which more than 300,000 civilians and Chinese unarmed soldiers were killedby Japanese invaders, said Zhang Jianjun, general director of the Nanjing MassacreMemorial Hall.
The Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, which co-organized the exhibition with the CaenMemorial, is China's largest museum dedicated to this massacre.
This exhibition mainly introduces the massacre in the eyes of European and Americanwitnesses who were in Nanjing during the unusual inhuman tragedy, presenting originalcontents from the archives in the form of daily notes, letters, documents, photos and videosmade by these witnesses, Zhang said.
"We welcome this exhibition for our public to learn that the Second World War indeedstarted in July 1937. In China, your people, like all peoples in the war, including theJapanese people, suffered terribly from this inhumanity of man to man," said StephaneGrimaldi, general director of the Caen Memorial, during the exhibition's inaugurationceremony.
"History does not change. History is not forgotten. It sheds light on the future. It is inremembering the cruelty of war that we understand better the value of peace. We meethere today, not to perpetuate the hatred, but to enable our future generations to live inpeace," said Chinese Ambassador to France Zhai Jun.
The on-site visitors are deeply attracted by this exhibition. "This is my first visit to anexhibition about the Nanjing Massacre. The number of people who were killed, the littlereaction the massacre has caused internationally ... are surprising," a 30-year-old Frenchvisitor Daniel told Xinhua.
http://en.people.cn/n3/2016/1023/c90000-9131381.html
