Suping Lu receives
Special Contribution Award Medallion
Suping Lu, professor, University Libraries and liaison
librarian for Economics, Political Science and Law, was awarded the Special
Contribution Award Medallion by the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Museum in China
for his research and publications. The award is given to those scholars who
have made outstanding contributions to the research on the topic. Lu is only
one of 23 people who have been given this award in the last 20 years. The organization recognized Lu for “advocating
awareness of the Nanjing Massacre in the English speaking world.”
The ceremony took place on December 9, 2014, in China at the
Memorial Hall of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre by Japanese Invaders in
Nanjing, capital of east China’s Jiangsu Province. Lu was not able to
attend the award ceremony in person, but received the award in February by
special delivery.
Lu has authored and edited 9 books on the Nanjing Massacre
in both English and Chinese. His
research focuses on the American and British eyewitness accounts on the
massacre and brings a Nebraska connection to it. The top American diplomat in
Nanjing at the time, John M. Allison, grew up in Lincoln, NE and was a 1927
graduate of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Allison cabled a large number
of dispatches, between January-August 1938, to the U.S. State Department. In
2010, Lu published a collection of the dispatches, along with documents by
other American diplomats, in the book, A
Mission under Duress. The Japanese occupation of Nanjing started on
December 13, 1937.
