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The Rape of Nanking [Paperback]

Iris Chang (Author)
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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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YA?The events in this book are horribly off-putting, which, paradoxically, is why they must be remembered. Chang tells of the Sino-Japanese War atrocities perpetrated by the invading Japanese army in Nanking in December 1937, in which roughly 350,000 soldiers and civilians were slaughtered in an eight-week period, many of them having been raped and/or tortured first. Not only are readers given many of the gory details?with pictures?but they are also told of the heroism of some members of a small foreign contingent, particularly of a Nazi businessman who resided in China for 30 years. The story of his bravery lends the ironic touch of someone with evil credentials doing good. Once the author finishes with the atrocities, she proceeds with the equally absorbing and much easier-to-take story of what happened to the Nazi businessman when he returned to Germany and the war ended. This by itself is material for a movie. The author tells why the Japanese government not only allowed the atrocities to occur but also refused, and continues to refuse, to acknowledge that they happened. She is quite evenhanded in reminding readers that every culture has some episode like this in its history; what makes this one important is the number of people killed and tortured, the sadism, and the ongoing Japanese denial of responsibility. Mature readers will look beyond the sensational acts of cruelty to ponder the horror of man's inhumanity to man and the examples of heroism in the midst of savagery.?Judy McAloon, Potomac Library, Prince William County, VA
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 Excellent and a solemn duty for everyone to recognize., Dec 15 2004
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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 the rest of the world not to recognize it.

However it is also important to remember that the Japanese people in general are not bad. They were brain washed and trained to be totally devoid of pity for enemy or for self.

As imperialism and fascism, any nation and any human being can become brain washed and be the perpetrator of such crimes. It is NOT just a certain race or people. In turn it is our duty as human beings to learn from this atrocity so that no nation or people will ever be subjected to commit such a brutal crime or become victims of this behaviour.

This book is not based loosely. There are literally thousands of eye witness accounts, diaries and pictures to support that the massacre took place. However some authors and historians differ on the actual number of people who were murdered, some say 200,000 while others say up to 600,000 were killed.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars not for the faint of heart, July 5 2004
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Bruce Garbow "Iceman E52" (Brooklyn, NY) - See all my reviews
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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. as a combat vet(desert storm), even i had to put this book down,once in a while.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Truth overcomes denials by the Guilty, Nov 12 2003
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This is an important book. The incredible brutalities committed by the Japanese in Nanking are well known to educated historians and to the Chinese people. The Japanese committed genocide wherever they attacked throughout Asia. The number of Chinese civilians killed by the Japanese invaders throughout China is much, much higher than the numbers killed in Nanking.

What is truly amazing is that in the year 2003, many Japanese people still are denying these events took place. They rush to write negative, uninformed reviews and denials on Amazon and they team together to hit the 'NO' buttons to review other peoples' legitimate reviews. Nanking was only one location out of many locations where the Japanese invaders brutalized and murdered en masse the local populations that they occupied. Please read other books that cover the Japanese's horrible treatment of American and Fillipino prisoners of war. No other country ever killed so many of its POWs. Not even Nazi Germany!

Those of you who continue to refuse to accept responsibilty for Japan's horrific actions in the 20th century bring shame upon yourselves and upon your ancestors. The Japanese apologists should stand shoulder to shoulder with Neo-Nazis and skinheads who similarly insist that no Jews were killed by Hitler and the Nazis. You are saying the same thing. You have been brainwashed by Japan's leadership which very dishonestly refuses to accept their responsibility for Japan's crimes. Anyone who would deny Japanese attrocities before and during World War II is a disgrace to the human race. Try as they might, these apologists for Japan's murderous past will never be able to silence the truth.

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