Renqiu Yu
Purchase College-State University of New York, Purchase, New York
2009 China Study Tour Participant
I thank NJ-ALPHA for including me in the 2009 China
Study Tour. It was a well planned study tour, and I learned a great deal
from all the activities – visiting Museums and Historical Sites, group
discussions, and conversations with Chinese scholars; but I particularly
appreciate the invaluable opportunities of meeting the survivors of the Rape
of Nanjing and the Japanese biological war in Western Yunnan, and I will
never forget these strong, honest, and decent men and women and their
stories, which I have shared with my students. For me, listening to the
survivors was the most important experience during the tour, for their
voices provide the most solid reason for learning and preserving the History
of World War II in