China Focus: New generation takes on mission of remembering Nanjing Massacre

by Xinhua writers Bai Xu, Cheng Lu and Qiu Bingqing

NANJING, Dec. 12 (Xinhua) -- The second installment in Yang Xiaoyan's Nanjing Massacre book series is set in 1937 and follows Wu An, a 12-year-old boy who is sold to a Chinese soldier hoping to disguise himself as a father and a civilian to evade the Japanese troops and rejoin the fight.

"'An' literally means 'safe' in Mandarin, as I wanted him to be sa