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Genre/Form: | War fiction History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Chang, Iris. Rape of Nanking. New York, NY : BasicBooks, ©1997 (OCoLC)605161238 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iris Chang |
ISBN: | 0465068359 9780465068357 0141007885 9780141007885 9780465068364 0465068367 0965604926 9780965604925 0140277447 9780140277449 |
OCLC Number: | 37281852 |
Description: | xi, 290 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm |
Contents: | The path to Nanking -- Six weeks of terror -- The fall of Nanking -- Six weeks of horror -- The Nanking safety zone -- What the world knew -- The occupation of Nanking -- Judgement day -- The fate of the survivors -- The forgotten Holocaust: a second rape. |
Series Title: | History (Booknotes) |
Responsibility: | Iris Chang. |
More information: | |
Local System Bib Number: | 247168 |
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Chicago Tribune "A powerful new work of history and moral inquiry. Chang takes great care to establish an accurate accounting of the dimensions of the violence." Nien Cheng, author of Life and Death in Shanghai "Meticulously researched ... A gripping account that holds the reader's attention from beginning to end." Beatrice S. Bartlett, professor of history, Yale University "Iris Chang's research on the Nanking holocaust yields a new and expanded telling of this World War II atrocity and reflects thorough research. The book is excellent; its story deserves to be heard." Frederic Wakeman, director of the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of California, Berkeley "Heartbreaking... An utterly compelling book. The descriptions of the atrocities raise fundamental questions not only about imperial Japanese militarism but the psychology of the torturers, rapists, and murderers." George F. Will, syndicated columnist "Something beautiful, an act of justice, is occurring in America today concerning something ugly that happened long ago... Because of Chang's book, the second rape of Nanking is ending." Orville Schell, The New York Times Book Review "In her important new book ... Iris Chang, whose own grandparents were survivors, recounts the grisly massacre with understandable outrage." Ross Terrill, author of Mao, China in Our Time, and Madame Mao "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self-righteousness, and the human spirit will find The Rape of Nanking of fundamental importance. It is scholarly, an exciting investigation, and a work of passion. In places it is almost unbearable to read, but it should be read--only if the past is understood can the future be navigated." Read more...
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- Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.
- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century.
- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)
- Massamoorden.
- Oorlogsmisdaden.
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- Nanking -- Massaker.
- Nanking Massacre, Nan-ching shih, China, 1937.
- Nan-ching shih (China) -- History.
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