Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation begins to air on Tuesday a TV documentary In Remembrance ahead of the 9th National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims to mark the 85th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre.
Since 2014, as the mainstream media where the Nanjing Massacre took place and where the National Memorial Day for Nanjing Massacre Victims was held, Jiangsu Broadcasting Corporation has successively launched a number of large-scale TV documentaries on the Nanjing Massacre.
The documentary "In Remembrance" takes the Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre of the Japanese Invaders as the core narrative carrier for the first time, leading the audience to approach the people who have experienced, excavated, studied, disseminated and ordinary visitors of the memory of the Nanjing Massacre by listening to their memory stories, and opening the "door of memory" from the perspectives of the construction of the memorial hall, exhibition design, key cultural relics, historical research and international communication, and the national memorial day ceremony.
It took one year for the shooting crew to plan and broadcast the documentary by sorting out and selecting tens of thousands of visitors' messages in the 37 years since the Memorial Hall was built. The documentary connects the practical significance and contemporary value of the historical memory of the Nanjing Massacre from the perspective of individual emotion, national memorial day ceremony, and world memory heritage.
The Nanjing Massacre took place when Japanese troops captured the city on Dec 13, 1937. Over six weeks, they killed more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and unarmed soldiers in one of the most barbaric episodes of World War II.
