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Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre (1937-1938) Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum Archived 2013-08-06 at the Wayback Machine; Kirk A. Denton, Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China (University of Hawaii Press, 2014), pp. 143–49.
Zhan Garden (simplified Chinese: 瞻园; traditional Chinese: 瞻園; pinyin: Zhān Yuán, literally "Garden of Forward Watching") is a Chinese garden located on No. 128 Zhan Yuan Road, beside Fuzimiao, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. [1] The first garden on this site was built during the early Ming dynasty by the general Xu Da.
Nanjing Massacre Memorial Day has been observed annually since 2014, with ceremonies at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall. The ceremony begins with the Chinese national anthem . [ 25 ] Sirens go off at 10:01 a.m. CST , and drivers stop and honk their horns.
The West Garden, also called Xu Garden, is a classical southern Chinese garden located just on the west of the Presidential Palace's central axis, which was considered as the finest work of the gardens in Nanjing together with Zhanyuan Garden. Centered on the Taiping Lake (literally "Pacific Lake"), various pavilions and attics built in the ...
Xu Garden, also known as the West Garden and by other names, is a Chinese garden on the west side of the former Presidential Palace in Xuanwu District in central Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China. It and Zhan Garden are the two major gardens of the city.
John Rabe's former residence in Nanking (as it was then called when he lived there), July 2008. The John Rabe House (拉贝故居), located at Xiaofenqiao No. 1 (小粉桥1号) in Nanjing, China, was where John Rabe stayed during the Nanjing Massacre and protected more than 600 Chinese refugees in this house, and within its garden, from Japanese persecution.
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
A statue of John Rabe in the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall Rabe's grave in Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Cemetery in Berlin-Charlottenburg, re-erected in 2013. On 5 January 1950, Rabe died of a stroke. In 1997, his tombstone was moved from Berlin to Nanjing, where it received a place of honour at the massacre memorial site and still stands today.