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To: brian h who wrote (58821)	1/12/2005 12:11:42 AM
From: brian h	Respond to of 74559

A comment from --- wais.stanford.edu """""Bill Ratliff writes: You ask a question that has befuddled mankind, "How can we remember the past in order not to commit the old crimes and yet bear no resentment toward the nations which committed them?" Though I have no definitive answer to that one, I will at least send some related comments arising out of the Iris Chang/China/Japan affair."""""" Did you understand what he mean by "How can we remember the past in order not to commit the old crimes and yet bear no resentment toward the nations which committed them?"? **** I once read an interview with Chang recounting how she decided to write Rape of Nanking. She and her parents lived in Northern California. As I recall it, they had an old grandmother living with them who never said anything, but always sat quietly in a corner of the kitchen. One day Chang, in her mid- to late-20s, remarked that she didn't understand why some people were critical of the Japanese, whereupon the old woman leaped out of her chair and exploded into a lecture on the crimes the Japanese had committed against the Chinese people. She then sat down and never spoke again. Chang thought she had better look into what had so enraged her mild little grandmother. As the research progressed, she found that it was all true and the result was her book. ******** BH