The Rape of Nanking
by Chang, IrisEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-01-10
Publisher(s): Basic Books
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Summary
In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered--a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.
Author Biography
Iris Chang (1968-2004) lived and worked in California. She was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminar program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm (the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received worldwide critical acclaim. She was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library.
Table of Contents
| Title Page | p. iii |
| Publication/Copyright Page | p. iv |
| Dedication Page | p. iv |
| Foreword | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| p. 17 | |
| The Path to Nanking | p. 19 |
| Six Weeks of Terror | p. 35 |
| The Fall of Nanking | p. 61 |
| Six Weeks of Horror | p. 81 |
| The Nanking Safety Zone | p. 105 |
| p. 141 | |
| What the World Knew | p. 143 |
| The Occupation of Nanking | p. 159 |
| Judgment Day | p. 169 |
| The Fate of the Survivors | p. 181 |
| The Forgotten Holocaust: a Second Rape | p. 199 |
| Epilogue | p. 215 |
| Acknowledments | p. 227 |
| Notes | p. 231 |
| Index | p. 285 |
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