| 七律 悼張純如 （普通話韻） |
| 送交者: 緲聃 2004年11月11日20:09:14 於 [競技沙龍] 發送悄悄話 |
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七律 悼張純如 （普通話韻） 緲聃 ２００４年１１月１１日（November 11, 2004） 宅心仁厚華人女 1. 張純如只活了３６歲 塗鴉之作，對仗不十分工整，也許有出律或孤平孤仄之處，用詞未必合適，請眾位高手批評。
*********************************************************************** Associated Press LOS GATOS, Calif. - Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, has died of a self-inflicted gunshot at age 36. Chang, who won critical acclaim for her books "The Rape of Nanking" and "The Chinese in America," was found dead in her car just south of Los Gatos, Santa Clara County authorities said Wednesday. On Tuesday morning, a motorist driving on Highway 17 noticed her car parked on a side road, checked the vehicle and called police. The official cause of death has not been released, but investigators concluded that Chang shot herself in the head, officials said. She lived in San Jose with her husband, Brett Douglas, and their 2-year-old son, Christopher. Born in Princeton, N.J., in 1968 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, Chang earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois and a master's degree in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Chang worked briefly as a reporter at The Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before leaving daily journalism to pursue her own writing. At age 25, she published her first book, "Threat of the Silkworm," which tells the story of Tien Hsue-shen, the Chinese-born physicist who pioneered China's missile program after being driven away from the United States during the Cold War. In 1997, Chang published the international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," which described the rape, torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the ????er Chinese capital during the 1930s. "The Chinese in America," published last year, is a history of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States. The late historian Stephen Ambrose described Chang as "maybe the best young historian we've got, because she understands that to communicate history, you've got to tell the story in an interesting way." Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching her fourth book about U.S. soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her ????er editor and agent Susan Rabiner. Chang continued to suffer from depression after she was released from the hospital. In a note to her family, she asked to be remembered as the person she was before she became ill - "engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family," Rabiner said. Chang is survived by her mother, father, brother, husband and son. *********************************************************** http://news.creaders.net/headline/newsPool/11A221306.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 【萬維讀者網】以《南京大屠殺》一書聞名的華裔女作家張純如，9日被路人發現用手槍在加州洛斯蓋多自殺於汽車內，得年僅36歲。 張純如寫的《被遺忘的大屠殺—1937年南京浩劫》一書1997年在北美地區出版，這是第一本以美國大眾為讀者的有關日軍在二戰期暴行的圖書，讀者稱讚此書是年度最佳書籍之一。張純如在新澤西州普林斯頓出生，在伊利諾州長大。她1989 年從伊利諾大學畢業後，曾在美聯社和芝加哥論壇報當記者，後來從約翰·霍普金斯大學獲得寫作學位，並開始全職寫作和演說。 加州克拉拉縣警察局9日上午9時接獲報案，一名路人開車經過洛斯蓋多一個由當地水利局所擁有、未開發的區域時，在17 號公路南邊一條未命名的路上，發現一名亞裔女性死於車內，路人立即報警。經過警方及驗屍官調查，確定這名女性就是著名的華裔作家張純如，死因為槍擊。 當地警區分局長知道張純如的作家身分，調查人員也認為，目前所掌握的證據都顯示張純如是自己開槍，一槍擊中頭部而自殺身亡的。 張純如的其它作品包括《中國導彈之父--錢學森之謎》和《華裔美國人》，都獲得好評。 洛杉磯時報形容她是“最好的歷史學家和人權鬥士”，是“在美國成長的華裔青年模範”。已故著名的歷史學家安布羅斯也曾說，“張純如可能是美國最優秀的年輕歷史學家，因為她了解必須用引人興趣的方式來傳達歷史意義”。 去年，張純如出版新書《美國的華人：一部敘述史》，再次引起廣泛注意。這本書講了華人150多年的移民史，讓早期華人在美受到的歧視公之於眾。有消息指出，張純如生前經診斷患有憂鬱症，據《洛杉磯時報》引述她的經紀人拉賓納的談話報導，張純如五個月前曾因病而住院，當時她正為她的第四本書進行研究旅行。這本書主要是描述第二次世界大戰期間在菲律賓巴丹半島和日軍作戰的美軍坦克營官兵，他們後來被日軍拘禁。從《南京大屠殺》到她近來準備寫的美國二戰被俘軍人受日軍虐待的歷史，都是盡顯人性惡劣、殘忍血腥的歷史。這些內容也與張純如的病因不無關聯。 張純如在留給家人的短信中表示，希望家人記得生病前的她，“曾認真生活，為目標、寫作和家人真誠奉獻過“。張純如說過，她從小聽祖父講述有關南京大屠殺的血腥史實，但發現美國史書對此重大歷史事件缺乏記載。她1996年在斯坦福大學看到南京大屠殺史料展覽，這是她首次有系統地看到有關紀錄和照片，在震驚之餘，決定寫書，揭露日本法西斯的殘暴，並提醒世人勿忘歷史，不要讓悲劇重演。 張純如自殺事件在美國華人社區引起強烈震撼，各種媒體在11日都在醒目位置刊出了她的照片和生平。與她有多年交往的世界抗日戰爭史實維護會發言人丁元表示，張純如有很強烈的正義感，她在主流社會中樹立了華裔的良好形象，很多華裔青年也都把她看成是學習的好榜樣。 |
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