The combo photo shows life of Xia Shuqin, a survivor of Nanjing Massacre. Photo taken on Dec. 3, 2016 shows Xia and her great-grandson offering incense for Nanjing Massacre victims (Up, 2nd, right). Photo taken on Aug. 23, 2006 shows Xia making a statement at court during the lawsuit against two Japanese rightest historians (3rd R, Central); Xia speaking at a press conference after winning the lawsuit against two Japanese rightest historians (R top); Photo taken on Jan. 14, 2017 shows Xia doing exercise in her community (1st R central); Xia holding her great-grandson (1st R bottom); Xia walking out of her home (2nd R bottom). Photo taken on Sept. 2002 shows Xia attending a testimony assembly of survivors of Nanjing Massacre in Nagasaki, Japan (3rd R bottom). Photo taken on Nov. 19, 2017 shows the names of Xia's family members carved on the wall remembering the victims at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in Nanjing. Xia was born on May 5, 1929. On Dec. 13, 1937, Japanese invaders came to her family, killed her father, grandparents and her one-year-old younger sister, and raped and killed her mother and two eldest sisters. The eight-year-old Xia survived after being slashed three times on the back with a sword, together with her four-year-old younger sister. The year 2017 marks the 80th anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, in which more than 300,000 Chinese were killed by the Japanese invaders who occupied Nanjing on Dec. 13, 1937, marking the start of six weeks of destruction, pillage, rape and slaughter in the city. There are only less than 100 living survivors of the atrocity. Reporters from Xinhua spent many years to look for the survivors of Nanjing Massacre and record their current lives. (Xinhua/Han Yuqing, Li Xiang and Ji Chunpeng)
