她让世界知道了南京大屠杀，但很多人还不知道她
有人说：没有她，世界将不知道南京大屠杀。
有人说：很多人知道南京大屠杀，却不认识她。
近日，在江苏省淮安市，张纯如纪念馆正式对外开放，2000名民众入馆参观怀念。
A memorial hall dedicated to the late American Chinese author Iris Chang has opened in Huai'an city of east China's Jiangsu Province.
张纯如是谁？
张纯如，美籍华裔女作家，1968年3月出生于美国新泽西州的普林斯顿。
Iris Chang, also known as Zhang Chunru, was born on March 28, 1968 in a Chinese immigrants' family in Princeton of New Jersey, the United States.
她是一个早慧的孩子，自幼就表现出独特的才华。
Her parents recalled that Iris learned to read at age 4. At 10, she won the first place in a young- author competition, which led to her dream of becoming a writer.
她曾经是美联社和芝加哥论坛报的记者。
Chang worked briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune.
她因为撰写并出版《南京大屠杀——被遗忘的二战浩劫》一书而为世人所知。
She is famous for her best-selling account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking -- The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II.
她的一生非常短暂，自杀离世时年仅36岁。
In 2004, Chang committed suicide in California at the age of 36.
我们为何纪念张纯如？
带着这个问题，英语环球广播的《今日》栏目（Today）特别连线了复旦大学教授王正绪。
For more on the memorial hall and Chang's book, our host Jingnan earlier spoke with Wang Zhengxu, Professor of contemporary Chinese studies at Fudan University.
请听他的分析：
正如王正绪教授所说，张纯如为保存那段历史与记忆做出了重要贡献；而她用英语写成的著作，让许多西方人第一次有机会了解南京大屠杀。
Iris Chang published The Rape of Nanking in 1997 after two years' research and interviews on the Chinese mainland.
Her book revealed the crimes committed by the Japanese military in Nanjing during World War II with ample documents and data.
It reaped international fame as one of the first books in English on the atrocities Japanese military inflicted upon Chinese people in 1937, a history not so well-known to the western audience.
她的书影响深远
回到本文开头的那句话，“有人说：没有她，世界将不知道南京大屠杀。”
这话夸张了，更准确的说法应该是，“没有她，西方世界的许多人都不知道南京大屠杀。”
张纯如的《南京大屠杀——被遗忘的二战浩劫》出版后，连续三个月被《纽约时报》评为最佳畅销书，影响了无数西方读者。
Many Americans and Europeans read the book and knew the details of the Nanjing Massacre for the first time.
因为读了她的书，著名企业家兼慈善家、时任美国在线公司副总裁 Ted Leonsis 个人投资200万美元，拍摄了纪录片《南京》。
Ted Leonsis is one of those readers. After reading Chang's book, Leonsis decided to shoot a documentary film on the Nanking Massacre, a tragedy he had never heard of before.
He later invited the Academy Award-winning writer/director team of Bill Guttentag and Dan Sturman to co-direct the project.
The film hit screens in 2007, the 70th anniversary of the atrocity.
她找到了拉贝日记
在写作过程中，张纯如最大的发现就是找到了“拉贝日记”，给南京大屠杀提供了新的历史佐证。
Iris Chang was considered a key member in retrieving Diaries of John Rabe, which provides crucial records of the Nanjing Massacre.
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她的心愿与忧虑
张纯如不仅花费了大量时间、心力寻找史料，并撰写、出版了《南京大屠杀——被遗忘的二战浩劫》一书；她还在各种场合勇敢发声。
请看一段珍贵的视频资料：
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张纯如在电视节目中与当时的日本驻美大使齐藤邦彦正面对决。
她说，她没有听到 apology 或 I am sorry ，只听到了 regret 、remorse 、unfortunately…… 这不是道歉。
（有兴趣的同学可以搜索日本首相安倍晋三近年来的相关演讲，remorse 依然是高频词。）
张纯如的勇敢与坚持招致日本右翼势力的骚扰和威胁，她不得不经常变换电话号码，也不敢透露丈夫和孩子的信息。
但是这些对她来说似乎不算什么，真正困扰她的是日本某些势力希望让这段历史消失。
What really bothers me was that powerful forces out there in Japan wanted the story to go away. I just felt it was insulting to the victims. I think individuals have to fight to prevent these acts of genocide from happening and then being forgotten.
张纯如曾在采访中谈到：
她的心愿是不能让这段历史消失，所以她写了这本书；
她的困扰是有人希望让这段历史消失……
事实证明，她的担心不是多余的。
在张纯如离世十多年后，APA酒店事件再次证明日本国内一些势力始终不愿正视历史，甚至企图否认和歪曲历史。
Always Pleasant Amenity (APA), a large Japanese hotel chain providing books that deny the Nanjing Massacre as well as forced prostitution in China and on the Korean Peninsula by the Japanese military during World War II has met strong protests from netizens in China.
The writer of the book, Toshio Motoya, is CEO of the APA Group and deputy director of a support group for Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.
事件发生后，APA集团CEO元谷外志雄曾经放言，几个月后人们就会忘记发生了什么……
我们真的会忘记吗？
小编以为，无论是对元谷外志雄的有力回击，还是对张纯如最好的纪念，都是同样的四个字：勿忘历史！
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