Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanjing Massacre—the mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
The Nanjing Massacre [b] or the Rape of Nanjing (formerly romanized as Nanking [c]) was the mass murder of Chinese civilians by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanking and retreat of the National Revolutionary Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War.
Cheng decided to write this book to educate readers about the Nanjing Massacre. [ 2 ] Cheng stated he chose to write a novel instead of a work of non-fiction because readers would focus on humanistic elements and "People will see the inner world of the Nanjing people living under the massacre."
Iris Shun-Ru Chang (traditional Chinese: 張純如; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author, and political activist.She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.
Pages in category "Nanjing Massacre books" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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 ...
Hata's major contribution to Nanjing (Nanking) Massacre studies is his book Nankin jiken ("The Nanjing Incident"), published in 1986, which is a detailed study of the event based on Japanese, Chinese, and English sources that was later noted by historians such as Daqing Yang to be one of the few impartial works of scholarship written on the ...
The book begins in 1937 [1] and focuses on Vautrin and her work at Ginling College to protect people during the massacre. A teacher named Anling Gao, [2] a middle-aged female assistant to Vautrin, is the novel's narrator. [3]