I first got provoked in this topic when I saw an article by Southern Weekly named “The once "disappeared"Nanjing Massacre”(曾“消失”的南京大屠杀),which cites Jing Shenghong, a historian scholar's memory and Wu Xianbing,curator of a Nanjing Massacre museum''s memory to say in 1970s the incident didn't appear in textbooks and even a kid born in nanjing could very well be unaware of it. And I have found some proof to show that in China, the incident had been broadcast in 1950s and be omitted to a great extent between 1960 and 1980.
A master thesis named “Film production and collective memory(影像生产与集体记忆——以南京大屠杀影片为中心)” mentioned in its first page that in three newspapers based near Nanjing,Xinhua Daily,Nanjing Daily and Yangtze Night, reports mentioning the incident turned out to be 5 in 1950 and 33 in 1951.After that until 1980,basically there is none.A thread named "Non-mainstream keywords of People's Daily 1949-1976(1949-1976《人民日报》非主流关键词)"appeared in 2007 when there was an non-restriction online People's Daily database.It says on People's Daily,the massacre appeared for 13 times from 1950 to 1952, mainly associating it with US's re-arming Japan schedule. And it appeared again in 1960 ,running 5 articles from may 16th to may 30th. And then it reappeared in 1982,when the Japanese textbook issue broke out. And by the way, in 1949 the special term "Great Nanjing Massacre(南京大屠杀,Nanjing Da Tusha)"appeared once,referring to a quell of protest in Nanjing by nationalist government.(
http://bbs.tianya.cn/post-no01-374148-1.shtml)
Zhu Shiwei朱世巍,a historian author mentioned in his book Eastern Front:The first winter(东线:第一个冬天)that when he was a pupil the first time he learned about the massacre he was told by his teacher gingerly,as if it was a taboo. Zhu was born in late 1970s.
An article named 《南京大屠杀的历史记忆(1937—1985)》Mei Ru'o(梅汝璈), the judge of Nanjing Tribune was accused of boasting the war terror""instigating ethnic hatred" "depicting the valor of invaders"for writing article about the massacre in 1960s(The idealogical trend was that war was conducted by some japanese warlords).The article was on The Journal of Studies of China’s Resistance War's 2009 fourth issue.
In an offical online interview, someone asked why there was no massacre in his primary school textbook and why the gov didn't start research right after 1949.The host answered the initial research was started since late 1950s in a small scale by Nanjing University.During the Cultural Revolution,there was no research.(
http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2005-08-10/17206659124s.shtml)
I have bought some old-time textbooks.In 1957's edition of Zhongguo Lishi(中国历史)vol4,the history textbook for junior middle school by People's Education Press,the massacre was recorded.However, in 1960's edition vol4,page 62,the massacre is gone. And in a history textbook used in cultural revolution's Beijing, 北京市中学试用课本面-中国历史,there was no massacre.
On 1960's Middle School History Teacher's Manual(中学历史教师手册),published by Shanghai Education Press there was no nanjing.
On 1977's Chronicle of Chinese Events(中国历史大事纪年),a reference book by Xuzhou Normal University for history teacher,there was no nanjing massacre in 1937. Another Xuzhou Normal's reference book,Chronicle of World's Events(世界历史大事纪年) omitted it as well,instead it says that US "murdered" Hiroshima's residents.
And last but not least, there are a lot of biased editors(probably from China) and admins on wikipedia. when I tried to add some of the materials(Southern Weekend and Zhu Shiwei) to the entried,someone deleted them using absurd excuses like "Zhu Shiwei has no source"(Zhu Shiwei is the author of a book so he is legitimately source by all policy).When I sued him with vandalism. Some admin blocked me with the name of edit war.So much for the grand,neutral,objective,sourced wikipedia.
Some photos:
Junior middle school's Zhongguo Lishi,page 62,nothing about nanjing massacre.
Beijing's Senior middle school history text book in cultural revolution
Another middle school test preparation book.no massacre.
Chinese threads for further reading:
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3103354842
http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_a158eb890102uxuv.html
http://tieba.baidu.com/p/3282134490?pid ... 7111562410