Illustrated story revives tragedy of Nanjing Massacre survivors

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The combo picture shows the portrait, fingerprint of Wan Xiuying and illustrated story reviving her tragedy based on facts. Born on March 18, 1928, Wan is a survivor of Nanjing Massacre, a heinous crime committed by the Japanese militarists during World War II in 1937, in Nanjing, then capital of China. In 1937, Wan lost two of her beloved family members, her elder brother being beheaded, her mother being bombed, all by the Japanese troops. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese invaders who occupied Nanjing on Dec. 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in the city. There are only less than 100 living survivors of the atrocity. Reporters from Xinhua spent many years to look for the survivors of Nanjing Massacre and record their current lives. (Xinhua/Photo by Ji Chunpeng, Illustrated by Chen Congying)