Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
16
result(s) for
"Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) History."
Sort by:
The making of the \Rape of Nanking\ : history and memory in Japan, China, and the United States
In The Making of the \"Rape of Nanking\" Takashi Yoshida examines how views of the Nanjing Massacre have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States. For these nations, the question of how to treat the legacy of Nanjing - whether to deplore it, sanitize it, rationalize it, or even ignore it - has aroused passions revolving around ethics, nationality, and historical identity. Drawing on a rich analysis of Chinese, Japanese, and American history textbooks and newspapers, Yoshida traces the evolving - and often conflicting - understandings of the Nanjing Massacre, revealing how changing social and political environments have influenced the debate. Yoshida suggests that, from the 1970s on, the dispute over Nanjing has become more lively, more globalized, and immeasurably more intense, due in part to Japanese revisionist history and a renewed emphasis on patriotic education in China. While today it is easy to assume that the Nanjing Massacre has always been viewed as an emblem of Japan's wartime aggression in China, the image of the \"Rape of Nanking\" is a much more recent icon in public consciousness. Takashi Yoshida analyzes the process by which the Nanjing Massacre has become an international symbol, and provides a fair and respectful treatment of the politically charged and controversial debate over its history.
eBook
The Undaunted Women of Nanking
The first book to interleave Minnie Vautrin's diary on the Rape of Nanking with that of her Chinese assistant Tsen Shui-fang from December 8, 1937 to March 1, 1938 day by day. In addition to over 160 annotations by the editors, the volume contains biographical sketches of the women, a note on the two diaries, a chapter on the aftermath of the Rape, two lengthy reports on the Rape of Nanking from Vautrin's correspondence in the Appendix and a selected bibliography.
eBook
They were in Nanjing
The Nanjing Massacre, which took place after the Japanese attacked and captured Nanjing in December 1937, shocked the world with the magnitude of its atrocities. With newly uncovered eye-witness material left behind by American and British journalists, mi
eBook
Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing
In recent years the international community has begun to scrutinize and, in many cases, condemn the atrocities that took place at Nanking in late 1937. This is all part of a larger worldwide movement in which both nations and multinational groups are attempting to reach closure regarding past atrocities and inhumanities. As represented by the contributors to this book, these activities have an importance reaching far beyond aggressors or victims, beyond admission or vindication, but rather are a search for the common causes of all human atrocities and for solutions that would set humanity on a path toward a more peaceful and harmonious international community.
eBook
A mission under duress : the Nanjing massacre and post-massacre social conditions documented by American diplomats
Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city.The carnage went on for weeks.On January 6, 1938, after the worst of the massacre atrocities was over, three American diplomats arrived in Nanjing.
eBook
The Making of a Family Saga
The institutional history of Ginling College is arguably a family history. Ginling, a Christian, women's college in Nanjing founded by Western missionaries, saw itself as a family. The school's leaders built on the Confucian ideal to envision a feminized, Christian family—one that would spread Christianity and uplift the family that was the Chinese nation. Exploring the various incarnations of the trope of the \"Ginling family,\" Jin Feng takes a microscopic view by emphasizing personal, subjective perspectives from the written and oral records of the Chinese and American women who created and sustained the school. Even when using more seemingly ordinary official documents, Feng seeks to shed light on the motives and dynamic interactions that created them and the impact they had on individual lives. Using this perspective, Feng questions the standard characterization of missionary higher education as simply Western cultural imperialism to show a process of influence and cultural exchange.
eBook
The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II
Details the massacre that took place in December 1937 when the Japanese army overthrew the ancient city of Nanking, China, and raped, tortured, and murdered over 300,000 civilians; examining the atrocity from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and the Europeans and Americans who created a safety zone for survivors.
eBook