Background Story
During December of 1937 and subsequent months in Nanjing (Nanking), over 300,000 civilian and disarmed combatants were murdered by the Japanese troops. The Japanese soldiers also gang-raped over 20,000 females, including seniors and minors, and robbed/destroyed countless valuable economic and cultural properties. We are now especially angry that so far the Japanese Government has still denied the facts of such terrible war crimes committed by their Imperial Army.
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THIS POETRY CONTEST
Presented by the Chinese Culture and Art League, Washington Poetry Club and Chinese Writers Association in North America of the United States Capital Chapter, encourages poets of all ages, genders, racial origins and cultural spectrum to compose poems in English and classical Chinese languages respectively for paying tribute and memory to/of these victims, as well as to numerous Western and Chinese unsung heroes who risked their lives at the time to save tens of thousands of Chinese females and refugees in the Nanjing (Nanking) Safety Zone set up by the American, German and other Western and local residents in Nanjing (Nanking), then the capital of China.
