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The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the personal journals of John Rabe, a German businessman who lived in Nanjing at the time of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937–1938. The book contains the diaries that Rabe kept during the Nanjing Massacre, writing from his personal experience and observation of the events that ...
The two diaries have detailed description of the war crimes Japanese soldiers committed on Ginling campus, revealing the suboptimal conditions women and children endure during the Nanjing Massacre. The Second Historical Archives of China in Nanjing has collaborated with Nanjing Publishing Group, to edit and translate the diary into English and ...
Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary, diarist, educator and president of Ginling College.A Christian missionary in China for 28 years, she became known for caring for and protecting at least 10,000 Chinese refugees during the Nanjing Massacre in China, during which she kept a now-published diary, [1] at times even challenging the Japanese ...
The John Rabe House is located in the center of Nanjing, at southeast corner of Gulou campus of Nanjing University. John Rabe, former Siemens China Representative and Chairman of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, resided there from 1932 to 1938. It was also in this house where he wrote the famous “Diaries of John Rabe”.
John and Dora Rabe autograph signatures, Nanjing, 22 May 1932. John Heinrich Detlef Rabe (23 November 1882 – 5 January 1950) was a Nazi businessman and diplomat best known for his efforts to stop war crimes during the Japanese Nanjing Massacre and protect Chinese civilians.
The Nanjing Municipal Revolutionary Committee established the New Nanjing Newspaper on February 1, 1970, rebranded it as Nanjing Daily on June 19, 1971, and ceased publication in October. On January 1, 1978, the Nanjing Newsletter relaunched, and on July 2, 1979, it reverted to its original title of Nanjing Daily as a four-page publication. The ...
Covering a total of 57 years, it is the most complete and detailed diary of any Chinese leader in history. However, the diaries from 1915, 1916, and 1917 were lost during a retreat following an attack by Beiyang Army forces in Yongtai County, Fujian Province, at the end of 1918. Only 13 days of the 1915 diary remain.
The total death toll of the Nanjing Massacre is a highly contentious subject in Chinese and Japanese historiography. Following the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Japanese Imperial Army marched from Shanghai to the Chinese capital city of Nanjing (Nanking), and though a large number of Chinese POWs and civilians were slaughtered by the Japanese following their entrance into ...