Chapter 1133: Public Opinion Attack
HarperCollins realized the market potential of the book "The Nanjing Massacre" and began to arrange for Zhang Chunru to go to major bookstores, television and radio stations in the United States to give book signings and interviews. In the following days, Zhang Chunru traveled to Los Angeles, Oakland, Seattle, Houston and many other cities.
At the same time, many important institutions in the United States began to invite Zhang Chunru to give speeches on the Nanjing Massacre, including the Federal Club in San Francisco and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.
On January 28, Zhang Chunru received a call from Jack McKeown, CEO of HarperCollins Publishing. McKeown excitedly told Zhang Chunru that "The Nanjing Massacre" had climbed to No. 11 on the New York Times bestseller list, and that it was a miracle that it had only been on the list for two weeks, and that it had only been on the list for two weeks! When McKeown called, the audience could clearly hear the cheers, whistles, and applause on the other end of the phone!
The camera cuts to the scene of the speech, and after the brief opening remarks of the speech organizer, Zhang Chunru walks onto the podium. The hall erupted in applause. Zhang Chunru smiled and told the audience the story of the Nanjing Massacre in a clear voice. After the speech, everyone at the scene stood up and saluted Zhang Chunru with applause. One of them, a middle-aged Jewish woman, applauded and shouted, "Zhang Chunru is a hero, she has unparalleled courage!"
At the meeting, Zhang Chunru was talking to several Americans about the Nanjing Massacre. A Dongying professor walked up to Zhang Chunru and provoked: "There is no evidence of the death toll in the city of Nanjing. Zhang Chunru was stunned, and immediately shot back: "I'll let you see the evidence!" Zhang Chunru immediately left the party scene, returned to the room to find a copy of the testimony of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and photographed it in front of Professor Dongying: "You want evidence!" Professor Dongying was dumbfounded and left in a gloomy manner.
On April 22, Zhang Chunru went to Salt Lake City to hold a book signing. During an interview at a bookstore, a South Korean reporter asked Jang Chun-ru: "What do you think of Ambassador Dongying's comments about your 'untrue' and 'biased' "Nanjing Massacre"?"
Zhang Chunru was taken aback when she heard this, she knew that her book would definitely be questioned and attacked by the Dongying right-wing, but she never dreamed that Ambassador Dongying would jump out, but she still said in a calmest tone as much as possible: "I haven't seen the relevant news yet, and I can't make a corresponding comment yet, I have to see what the ambassador said before I can respond!"
The camera switches, Zhang Chunru sits in front of the computer, watching Yahoo News. The camera cuts to a computer screen, and the news reads: On April 21, Toei's ambassador to the United States, Kunihiko Saito, publicly criticized Zhang Chunru's school bag as a "very wrong description" at a press conference in Washington, D.C., containing many extremely inaccurate descriptions and one-sided statements. Zhang Chunru's close-up, her eyes were so angry that they were about to burst into flames: "It's really unimaginable that even Ambassador Dongying has come forward! This is a common trick, just like when they attacked Ms. Minnie-Weitling!"
The camera cuts to Nanjing Drum Tower Hospital, and the time is early April 1940. The doctor told the haggard Weitling that she had been under great stress for many years, her body was overtired, she was in menopause, and her nutritional deficiencies had led to poor physical condition, and she was advised to inject estrogen. Weitling was reluctant to be injected. Cheng Ruifang hurriedly persuaded: "You have a physical problem, and you can't work at all in your current state." Female hormone injections can restore your body to health and get you back to normal work, so why refuse?" Hearing Cheng Ruifang say this, Wei Tling agreed to accept hormone therapy.
The camera cuts to Jin Nuda, and Wei Tling and Cheng Ruifang, who have been injected with hormones, have just walked into the school, and they see a group of people shouting at the central building: "Meiru come down! Come down!" On the window on the third floor of the central building, Meiru looked at the sky with a blank expression. Wei Tling and Cheng Ruifang were also startled, and hurriedly ran to the front of the building, shouting at Meiru: "Meiru, what are you doing? It's too dangerous! Come down!"
Unexpectedly, when Meiru heard this, she suddenly lowered her head, shouted at Weitling, "Liar, liar", and then jumped down from the building. Beauty fell to the ground, and red blood gushed out like water.
The camera cuts to Weitling's office, and Weitling asks Chen Feiran what is going on, how could she suddenly commit suicide when she is as beautiful as she was supposed to be. Chen Feiran refused to speak. Wei Tling realized that Chen Feiran had something to hide from him, so he asked what was going on. Chen Feiran couldn't shirk it, so he had to take out a copy of "Purple Mountain Evening News".
Newspapers ran articles titled "The Real Criminals," aimed at Westerners in Nanjing. The article condemned the camps that had been established in the former security zone, saying that the camps had brought women together and opened the door for the Dongying people to defile them. As a result, even the pimped Chinese led the Dongying soldiers there to find the girl. The author claims that "this is a despicable American way of seducing Chinese women to provide *** for the Dongying people." β
The author of the article also specifically named Weitling, saying that she was the mastermind: "Minnie Weitling, acting principal of Jinling College, agreed to provide a hundred beautiful women to the Dongying people, and in that dark day, they took twenty-one people. She was like a brothel boss, and later she kept apologizing to the Dongying soldiers, promising to let them choose another seventy-nine people. Not only that, but she also assured them that the doors of the school would always be open to them......"
Weitling sat down on the ground as if she had lost her soul, tears streaming down her eyes and her body trembling.
Cheng Ruifang dismantled the newspaper into pieces, grabbed Wei Tling's shoulder, and said loudly: "This is nonsense! It's a trick of the Dongying people! We all know that this is not the case at all! You have protected those women and girls to the greatest extent! Minnie, this is not your fault at all!"
Weitling's lips twitched, as if she wanted to say something, but in the end she didn't say anything. She slowly stood up and walked out of the office in a dejected state.
Weitling collapsed, didn't eat or drink, and looked like she was a teenager old. She sat on the bed and told Cheng Ruifang that she was responsible for all the problems faced by Jinling College and for all the suffering suffered by the refugee women and girls, especially the women and girls who were taken away by the Dongying soldiers. She added: "I had a hunch for a long time. Now that I'm at the end, I don't have the strength to move forward. I failed, sadly. β
Cheng Ruifang persuaded Wei Tling, the faculty and staff of Jinnu University, and the missionaries of Nanjing City also came to persuade him. Everyone said that Weitling did a better job than anyone else, was a hero of Nanjing City, and a good principal loved by everyone. But Weitling felt like she had lost her soul, she couldn't listen to anything, and she couldn't stop muttering to herself, saying that she was sorry for the girls who had been caught, and that she was a pathetic loser. Mrs. Sulston, who was acting as the school's agent, believed that Weitling's current condition was not suitable for her stay in Nanjing, and that she should be sent back to the United States for treatment.
On May 14, Weitling, accompanied by Miss Schutz and Pastor Metch of the United Christian Missionary Church, prepared to return to the United States. The faculty and staff of Golden Lady University came to say goodbye to Weitling and send her blessings. Cheng Ruifang burst into tears and choked up: "Minnie, you must come back." We said that we would enjoy our old age together in Nanjing. β
When Miss SchΓΌtz and Pastor Metch walked out of the Golden Lady campus with Weitling, they were both stunned. Outside the school gates stood thousands of women, and children Weitling had rescued from the guns of the Dongying people. Knowing that Weitling was returning to the United States, the survivors came to see him off. While crying, they said goodbye to Weitling: "Miss Hua, you have to take care! Miss Hua, you must come back!"
Weitling smiled blankly, as if she couldn't hear anything, as if the soul had flown away, leaving only an empty shell.
May 14, 1941, at the home of Cassaline, secretary of the United Christian Missionary Church of America. Weitling and Cassaline were talking in the room, and Weitling seemed to be in much better condition than when she left Nanjing, at least she was awake. Cassaline told Weitling that she needed to go shopping and would be back soon. Weitling told Cassaline to go with peace of mind, she was fine.
However, as soon as Cassaline left, Weitling turned on the gas switch in the kitchen and wrote on a note: "I believe I will never return to normal, I would rather die than go insane, I am a pathetic loser." β
Weitling sat on the edge of the bed and took out a photo tremblingly, which was a group photo in front of the central building of the Golden Women's University, with Cheng Ruifang, Chen Feiran and other staff members of the Golden Women's University, as well as many refugees. Looking at the familiar face in the photo, Weitling burst into tears, and she said softly: "If I can regenerate again, I will still be with you, China is my home." With that, Weitling put the picture under her pillow, then lay down on the bed and slowly closed her eyes.
At the same time as Weitling took out the photo, the voiceover sounded, it was one of the three wills that Weitling left behind, she said that she had 710 yuan in a bank in the magic capital, and this money was donated to Jin Nuda, and at the same time, the seven acres of land she bought last year were also donated to Jin Nuda. At the end of the will, Weitling wrote: "Jinling lives forever!"
Sobbing rang out in front of the screen, and no one could control their tears. Weitling saved tens of thousands of women and children in Nanjing, but she failed to save her own lives.
At Shepard Town Cemetery, Michigan, a Weitling funeral is underway. Very few people attended the funeral, only Weitling's relatives and the staff of the United Christian Missionary Church. The pastor read Psalm 23. Yorkemer, executive secretary of the United Christian Missionary Society, said sentimentally: "Minnie Weitling was also a victim of war atrocities. She fought bravely and fell like a warrior. β
In April 1998, Zhang Chunru was being interviewed by The New York Times. Zhang Chunru said angrily: "This is the usual trick of the right-wing in Dongying, and I will never be defeated by them." She asked: "Can you imagine a German ambassador to the United States commenting on a book about the Holocaust?"
The reporter did not answer Zhang Chunru's question, the answer was obvious, he asked with a smile: "What are your plans?"
Zhang Chunru stared at the reporter and said slowly: "Since Ambassador Kunihiko Saito thinks that my book is a very wrong description and has a lot of inaccuracies, then I am willing to have a public debate with him on the so-called 'inaccuracies' on national television! I challenge Mr. Kunihiko Saito, and I hope to have an open debate with Mr. Kunihiko Saito!"
A string of newspapers appeared on the big screen, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Time Magazine, and other authoritative media outlets, with the headline "The author of 'Nanjing Massacre' asks for an open debate with Ambassador Dongying."
Almost everyone sat up straight in front of the screen, and everyone knew that the final climax of the movie was coming. Everyone hoped that Zhang Chunru would leave Saito speechless in a public debate, and they also believed that Zhang Chunru could do it!
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