China Guide
Jiangsu and Zhejiang
The Nanjing Massacre memorial
Opening time: Tues– Sun 8.30am–4.30pm
Price: Free
Address: West of Wulong Park
In 1937, the name Nanjing became synonymous with one of the worst atrocities of World War II, after the so-called Rape of Nanking, in which invading Japanese soldiers butchered an estimated 300,000 civilians. The grim, gravelly garden of the Memorial to the Nanjing Massacre pays testament to this horror. It includes a gruesome display of victims' skulls and bones, half-buried in the dirt, as well as a clearly labelled (in English) photographic account of the sufferings endured by the Chinese at the hands of the Japanese army during World War II.