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What is The Rape Of Nanking about?
In December 1937, in what was then the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (Nanjing) and within weeks not only looted and burned the defenseless city but systematically raped, tortured, and murdered more than 300,000 Chinese civilians. Amazingly, the story of this atrocity—one of the worst in world history—continues to be denied by the Japanese government.Based on extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents in four different languages (many never before published), Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, has written what will surely be the definitive, English-language history of this horrifying episode—one that the Japanese have tried for years to erase from public consciousness.The Rape of Nanking tells the story from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers who performed it;...
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Iris Chang
- Publisher
- Basic Books
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Rating
- 4.08 / 5 (17,152 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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