| 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. |
据《扬子晚报》报道，最后23卷的南京大屠杀史料合集7月6日由江苏人民出版社出版，至此，由史学家张宪文领衔为期10年的学术工作结束。 |
| 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. |
这个宏大的系列共有4000万字，78卷，广罗了有关南京大屠杀的史料。在1937年为期6周的暴行中，约30万中国人被日本军队杀害。 |
| 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. |
约100名学者、教授参与了该项目，他们赴美国、德国、英国、日本、俄罗斯、意大利、台湾收集资料。 |
| It is a comprehensive collection of first-hand accounts of perpetrators, victims and third parties, including personal diaries and news stories. |
这是一部全面收集了加害方、被害方和第三方第一手叙述的合集，包括个人日记、新闻报道等。 |
| 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. |
张宪文表示，最后23卷包括6卷特辑，主要是从国外收集来的资料，其中三分之二是以前很罕见的。 |
| "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." |
他说：“意大利和前苏联记者对日本暴行的新闻报道，是首次编入，反映了不只是中国和美国等国家在关注这一事件。” |
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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) |
张宪文还表示，他计划在接下来两年里写一本此集的简化本，供普通读者阅读。 |
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