The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938 : : Complicating the Picture /

The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938 : : Complicating the Picture / / ed. by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.

First published in 2007, The Nanking Atrocity remains an essential resource for understanding the massacre committed by Japanese soldiers in Nanking, China during the winter of 1937-38. Through a series of deeply considered and empirically rigorous essays, it provides a far more complex and nuanced...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
MitwirkendeR:
Akira, Fujiwara,
Askew, David,
Brook, Timothy,
Fogel, Joshua A.,
Kenji, Ono,
Saburô, Amano,
Takuji, Kimura,
Tokushi, Kasahara,
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi,
Yamamoto, Masahiro,
Yoshida, Takashi,
HerausgeberIn:
Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (496 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface to the Second Edition
  • Preface to the First Edition
  • Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table
  • Maps
  • Iris Chang Reassessed: A Polemical Introduction the Second Edition
  • For two pioneers in critical Nanking historical scholarship: Hora Tomio (1906–2000) and Fujiwara Akira (1922–2003)
  • Chapter 1. The Messiness of Historical Reality
  • Chapter 2. The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview
  • Section One: War Crimes and Doubts
  • Chapter 3. Massacres outside Nanking City
  • Chapter 4. Massacres near Mufushan
  • Chapter 5. Part of the Numbers Issue: Demography and Civilian Victims
  • Chapter 6. The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest Debate, 1971–75
  • Chapter 7. Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking: The Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History
  • Section Two: Agressors and Collaborators
  • Chapter 8. Letters from a Reserve Officer Conscripted to Nanking
  • Chapter 9. Chinese Collaboration in Nanking
  • Chapter 10. Westerners in Occupied Nanking: December 1937 to February 1938
  • Chapter 11. Wartime Accounts of the Nanking Atrocity
  • Section Three: Another Denied Holocaust?
  • Chapter 12. The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese Historical Memory
  • Chapter 13. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Critical Appraisal of American Historiography
  • Chapter 14. Higashinakano Osamichi: The Last Word in Denial
  • Chapter 15. Nanking: Denial and Atonement in Contemporary Japan
  • Postscript
  • Chapter 16. Leftover Problems
  • Appendix
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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