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by Iris Chang (Author) "THE CHRONICLE of humankind's cruelty to fellow humans is a long and sorry tale ..." (more)
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China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched The Rape of Nanking, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


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Even though the Japanese government still refuses to acknowledge the massacre of at least 250,000 Chinese civilians by invading Japanese troops in 1937, freelance writer Chang (the Chicago Tribune, the New York Times, the Associated Press) has exposed in detail the full, terrible account of what happened to the war-torn capital of Nanking. Chang, whose grandparents survived the brutality, first establishes Japan's social hierarchy by martial competition, then shows how the city of Nanking fell, the six weeks of horror following, and the Nanking safety zone created by Americans and Europeans. The book goes on to depict the city's occupation, the judgment day for Japanese war criminals, the cover-up perpetrated by Japanese textbooks, and Japan's self-imposed censorship. The unseen illustrations will certainly complement the vivid description of one of the most horrible massacres of all. This unique, deeply researched book, with its firsthand account, is an excellent choice for larger public libraries and the East Asia collections of academic libraries.?Steven Lin, American Samoa Community Coll. Lib.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Depths of Man's Depravity, April 7 2008
By Ian Gordon Malcomson (Smithers, Canada) - See all my reviews
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In 1936, the Japanese Ninth Army systematically set about to destroy Nanking, a major industrial city on the Yangtze River, over two hundred miles inland from the China Sea. Many believe that this annihilation took place in order to break any further resistance to the Japanese advancing on country's interior. In her account of the campaign, Chang reviews a wide range of circumstances that tell a different story. The thousands of atrocities that followed the capitulation of the city were the result of the Japanese government and the military leaders intentionally letting their men run riot throughout the city. Evidence shows that mass decapitating impaling, and disfiguring happened because regular soldiers were encouraged to do their worst and discipline disappeared rapidly. Out of this nightmare, which according to Chang, has not been even remotely atoned for in history, came acts of unlikely heroism from the strangest of people. A leading local Nazi consul, John Babe, living in the German legation at the time of the invasion, granted asylum to dozens of Chinese fleeing the massacre. This book serves to remind all of us of the great potential for savagery that exists in the heart of humankind. A person should not read this book with any sense of smugness that society has successfully put Armenia, Nanking, Auschwitz, Cambodia and the Soviet Gulags behind us. Less we forget, we now have the recent memories of the killing fields of Rwanda, East Timor, Bosnia and Iraq to remind us of the human capacity for evil. I found Chang's study to offer some of the most grisly, intensive and heart-wrenching description of human suffering imaginable. Every last detail seemed to stop me dead in my tracks as I grappled with the horror of the moment. What I found interesting, after I had finished reading the story, was that Chang wrote it as a research dissertation and not as a first-hand account. Her ability to access and evalaute firsthand evidence of atrocities makes her an ideal person to deliver the truth on how Nanking fell.
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4.0 out of 5 stars much needed work, but research can go deeper, Jun 20 2006
By Asia-affairs-watcher (Hong Kong and Toronto) - See all my reviews
Knowing the past is all important and this book does a wonderful work in revealing truth about some tragic events. Its research is not that deep though, more searchers should jump on it. Also, Japan and China are still at odds today, though Japanese investments are heavy inside China today. One nice book by another Chinese journalist George Zhibin Gu explores current Japan-China relations: China's global reach: markets, multinationals, and globalization, which also gives huge insights on what is inside Chinese politics and business and its global connections.
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4.0 out of 5 stars reminded me of my origin again, April 8 2006
By Iis (United States of America) - See all my reviews
Before reading this book, I already knew of the history of the events listed in this book. I learned in school, I saw them in the Museum, and I have heard from my grandparents from the war. This book made me think of the past events again, and comparably to that, my life is almost nothing. It's not a matter of a fact that these are sins, because everyone sins in their life. But rather, it is to remember the consequences and reasons so we do not make the same mistakes again. For those of whom above that said the informations are biased or incorrect, I personally think that they should have been there themselves to taste the bitterness of the massacre. And especially, if you're not from the region, do not assume that you know everything about it - directed to the second reviewer of the book. It is recognized that the Holocaust in Germany is a tragic event, who binds the actual existance of this massacre? For we and our ancesters, who have tasted the blood and pain, does not lie to beg for sympathy.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Provides little insight
Iris Chang is certainly no Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn when it comes to describing atrocities. She resorts to shocking and disturbing photographs of corpses to elicit emotion... Read more
Published on Dec 22 2006 by Myrtle Hocklemeier

5.0 out of 5 stars People, it's meaningless to argue about numbers!
Does it really matter if the number of Chinese civilians that are killed is 50,000 or 500,000? An atrocity is an atrocity, regardless of the number! Read more
Published on April 2 2005 by aquaexecution

1.0 out of 5 stars Media of Propaganda
It's so amazing that many reviewers of this book accept everything they read in the book as truth. Then, when you realize the so many of the reviewers are also of Chinese origin... Read more
Published on Mar 25 2005 by Lawrence

1.0 out of 5 stars Media of Propaganda
It's so amazing that many reviewers of this book accept everything they read in the book as truth. Then, when you realize the so many of the reviewers are also of Chinese origin... Read more
Published on Mar 25 2005 by Lawrence

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent and a solemn duty for everyone to recognize.
The rape of Nanking in 1937 is the very definition of barbarity. Just as it is a crime against humanity to perpetrate such an inhumane act it is also a crime against humanity for... Read more
Published on Dec 15 2004 by riley555

5.0 out of 5 stars a heartbroken history
It's a must read. I was totally outraged by Japanese behavior, not only in WWII, but also now. Because Japanese strongly intended to deny and conceal their atrocites, most people... Read more
Published on Nov 15 2004 by Chris Brown

2.0 out of 5 stars Interesting but extremely flawed
While Chang's narrative is compelling, the fact that she compiled most of her information from Chinese sources and uses Chinese government estimates leaves a great deal of doubt... Read more
Published on Jul 11 2004 by Greg Brown

5.0 out of 5 stars not for the faint of heart
this book is not for people with weak stomachs. the author describes the war atrocities very graphically and there are photographs that are equally as grahic. Read more
Published on Jul 5 2004 by Bruce Garbow

4.0 out of 5 stars A hidden tragedy uncovered
Nearly everyone has learned of the crimes committed throughout Europe by Hitler and his Nazi regime but, very few know about the rape of Nanking. Read more
Published on Jun 2 2004 by Robert Gomez

5.0 out of 5 stars Authentic
Her inclusion of over 50 pages of references backing up her findings and statements is a good indication that Iris Chang values integrity and authenticity. Read more
Published on May 13 2004 by dreamcatcher2000

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