Bei yi wang de da tu sha

1937 Nanjing hao jie

347 pages

Chinese language

Published Sept. 26, 1997 by Tian xia wen hua chu ban gu feng you xian gong si.

ISBN:
978-957-621-422-6
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OCLC Number:
38493264

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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 Nanking Massacre, the massacre and atrocities committed by the Imperial Japanese Army after it captured Nanjing, then capital of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanking Massacre and the atrocities that were committed. The book presents the view that the Japanese government has not done enough to redress the atrocities. It is one of the first major English-language books to introduce the Nanking Massacre to Western and Eastern readers alike, and has been translated into several languages.The book received both acclaim and criticism by the public and by academics. It has been praised as a work that "shows more clearly than any previous account" the extent and brutality of the episode, while at the same time elements of …

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Subjects

  • Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937
  • Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History