December13marksChina'sfourthNationalMemorialDayforNanjingMassacreVictims,adaytomournthemorethan300,000ChinesewholosttheirlivesatthehandsofJapaneseinvaders80year
Atotalof447overseasChinesegroupsaretoholdmemorialceremoniesforNanjingMassacrevictimsWednesday.Morethan10,000ChinesepeopleincountriesincludingtheUnitedStates,Can
Plainly dressed in a dark gray suit, 87-year-old Xia Shuqin seemed no different from any other suburban Chinese lady. However, her weatherworn face and her determined eyes suggested that her story was different: She had survived the Nanjing Massacre.
One of the 100 or so survivors of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937 has been saved after a life-threatening lung condition at a hospital in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, the Modern Express reported.
Nearly 80 years after the Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre, one of the darkest moments in human history, records of the atrocities have been added on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register on Friday.
Hundreds of mourners lit candles at a vigil held in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing on Wednesday night for the people killed after the city fell to Japanese invaders in World War II.
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