| The final 23 volumes of a collection of historical records on the Nanjing Massacre were released on July 6 by Jiangsu People's Publishing House, ending a 10-year academic effort led by historian Zhang Xianwen, the Yangtse Evening News reported. |
據(jù)《揚子晚報》報道，最后23卷的南京大屠殺史料合集7月6日由江蘇人民出版社出版，至此，由史學家張憲文領銜為期10年的學術工作結束。 |
| The staggering 40-million-word, 78-volume series collect a wide range of historical materials related to the Nanjing Massacre, in which around 300,000 Chinese were believed to be killed by Japanese armies in a six-week rampage in 1937. |
這個宏大的系列共有4000萬字，78卷，廣羅了有關南京大屠殺的史料。在1937年為期6周的暴行中，約30萬中國人被日本軍隊殺害。 |
| The project involved about 100 scholars and professors who went to the U.S., Germany, the UK, Japan, Russia, Italy and Taiwan to collect materials. |
約100名學者、教授參與了該項目，他們赴美國、德國、英國、日本、俄羅斯、意大利、臺灣收集資料。 |
| It is a comprehensive collection of first-hand accounts of perpetrators, victims and third parties, including personal diaries and news stories. |
這是一部全面收集了加害方、被害方和第三方第一手敘述的合集，包括個人日記、新聞報道等。 |
| Zhang said that the last 23 volumes, including six of special collections, mainly include materials collected from abroad, two-thirds of which were rarely seen before. |
張憲文表示，最后23卷包括6卷特輯，主要是從國外收集來的資料，其中三分之二是以前很罕見的。 |
| "We included for the first time news stories on Japan's atrocities by Italian and Soviet reporters," Zhang said. "It reflected that not just China and America were concerned about the incident." |
他說：“意大利和前蘇聯(lián)記者對日本暴行的新聞報道，是首次編入，反映了不只是中國和美國等國家在關注這一事件?！?/td> |
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Zhang also said he plans to write an abridged edition of the collection for ordinary readers in the next two years.
(China.org.cn July 8, 2011) |
張憲文還表示，他計劃在接下來兩年里寫一本此集的簡化本，供普通讀者閱讀。 |
