Illustrated story revives tragedy of Nanjing Massacre survivors (11)

The combo picture shows the portrait, signature of Xiong Shulan and illustrated story reviving her tragedy based on facts. Born on Sept. 14, 1931, Xiong 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. After Nanjing being occupied by the invaders, Xiong's aunt was raped by Japanese in turn. Her uncle was murdered shortly after. She witnessed Japanese troops using tons of dead bodies to fill up the ditch under a destroyed bridge. 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 Han Yuqing, Illustrated by Chen Congying)