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Rape of Nanking Paperback - 2012
by Chang, Iris
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This "New York Times" national bestseller recounts the forgotten story of the brutal massacre of 300,000 Chinese civilians by the Japanese army. "Anyone interested in the relation between war, self-righteousness, and the human spirit will find "The Rape of Nanking" of fundamental importance".--Ross Terrill, author of "China in Our Time". of photos.
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Details
- Title Rape of Nanking
- Author Chang, Iris
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Trade Pape
- Condition New
- Pages 360
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Basic Books, U.S.A.
- Date 2012-01-10
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # 52GZZZ00J28L_ns
- ISBN 9780465068364 / 0465068367
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.1 x 5.4 x 1 in (20.57 x 13.72 x 2.54 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1280
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Cultural Region: Asian - Japanese
- Library of Congress subjects Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng,, Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) - History -
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012372267
- Dewey Decimal Code 951.042
Summary
China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago.
First line
THE CHRONICLE of humankind's cruelty to fellow humans is a long and sorry tale.
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Citations
- New Yorker (The), 11/25/2013, Page 121
- Reference and Research Bk News, 04/01/2012, Page 30
