UPDATES ON Oct 5,2005
New
2005 捐书活动后记
本次华人网友自发给渥太华公共图书馆捐书活动圆满结束告一段落. 11位网友共捐赠(加币640元,实物书19本). 总共支出(CAD690.39,US$259.27). 给图书馆捐赠总共14种书,58本(包括19本实物捐赠书). 附上一份详细数目名册和数目.和一个具体在哪些图书馆分馆可以找到这些书(有书号CALL NUMBER,ISBN,BRANCH INFORMATION)的一个INTERNET连接.
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/dengcn/12/2005OttawaBookDonationList11.doc
(要看的话,鼠标放在上面LINK,CLICK右键,SAVE就存盘)
捐赠的目的是下面两个.
1) 纪念在1931-1945那段时间受日本侵略之苦的同胞
2) 增进加拿大首都地区民众对亚洲人民在二战中所受痛苦的了解.
图书馆对藏书管理的原则是根据阅读量和需求,如果很长时间没有人借阅某些书籍,图书馆会清理卖掉FOR SALE. 我希望大家能把这份书籍名单散发给各种有可能关心和利用的人士和社团,以增加阅读量. 如果各位有机会涉及历史社会人文军事学术活动或和本地人谈起那段历史时,也请你们能将此书目散发做为参考.
尽管本次活动成功结束,我仍留有一些遗憾. 中国的二战历史是一段屈辱的历史,也是一段无数军民不屈不挠抗争的历史. 很可惜我们没能找到更多的反映中国军民勇敢抗击日本的英文书籍. 中国在二战中是做出了很大的牺牲的.有英文描写中国远征军(中国驻缅军成功救出被日军围困的英军)的吗?有英文描写川滇贵军在临沂/台儿庄的悲壮吗?当然这需要一些资金,中国大陆和台湾现在经济发展成就举世瞩目.很多本地人现在都认为很多华人很有钱,在经济上很成功. 能否有更多的人帮助很多中文历史小说走向世界? 中国在不断开放,中国在向世界推介投资和经济机会,中国更需要向世界推介在极端困难下顽强拼搏的民族精神. 这是一种SOFT POWER! 这种SOFT POWER会极大的提升中国产品和华人形象.
我有一个小小的愿望,就是在未来再组织一次捐赠活动,主题将是:”二战中不屈抗争的中国军民”, 我在期待更多的描写类似题材的英文书籍.
附:
"PLATE上的题词说明"
我们的题词已经出现在图书的内页中(见最后跟贴附图),实物捐的书100%都有题词PLATE,FUND买的有的贴了,有的没有.说明一点:有部分用FUND买的书后来进目录的,因为时间跨度太大,经过不同的经手人,有可能没有题词贴.就是说凡是以后见到这标记PLATE,100%是我们捐的,部分没有贴题词PLATE的,只要在我那书的LIST上的,也应该是我们捐的.
附: 捐赠书籍全目录 (共58本,14种书,包括19本实物捐赠书)
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/dengcn/12/2005OttawaBookDonationList11.doc
(要看的话,鼠标放在上面LINK,CLICK右键,SAVE就存盘)
1) Factories of death : Japanese biological warfare, 1932-1945, and American cover-up
4 copies
2) The Rape of Nanking: (Iris Chang)
20 copies
3) The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Blackstone (Audiobooks)
2 copies
4) “The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame”
3 copies
5) Nanjing Massacre in History and Histiography.
3 copies
6) UNIT 731 Testimony.
5 copies
7) The Comfort Women
5 copies
8) Documents on the rape of Nanking
3 copies
9) American goddess at the rape of Nanking : the courage of Minnie Vautrin / Hua-ling Hu, with a foreword by Paul Simon.
4 copies
10) China’s bitter victory: the war with Japan, 1937-1945
2 copies
11) Comfort woman : a Filipina's story of prostitution and slavery under the Japanese military
2 copies
12) A plague upon humanity : the secret genocide of Axis Japan’s germ warfare operation
5 copies
13) Buddhism, war and nationalism: Chinese monks in the struggle against Japanese aggressions, 1931-1945
1 copy
14) China in the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 : politics, culture and society
1 copy
Total: 14 kinds of books and 58 copies
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UPDATES ON Oct 3,2005
NEW
最新进展
My Dear Donor
Library has mailed out TAX receipt for your donation. Some people have got mails. Both fund and book donors get TAX receipt.
Along with the TAX receipt, there is a cover letter (Thanks you letter) in the envelop. Please be aware that the letter is written in standard format which doesn't mention our specific event. Our fund is being used for purchasing the books we requested.
Please check your mail recently. If anyone doesn't get, please inform me.
Thanks again
各位捐赠者,你们好
图书馆已经把报税收据通过CANADA POST邮件寄出,部分捐赠者已经收到图书馆信件.支票和实物书捐赠者都能拿到TAX收据. 在邮件和TAX收据一起寄来的还有一份感谢信,这份信用的是统一的格式,经过查验,我们的FUND和书确实用来库存我们希望的书籍.
请在最近检查你们的邮箱,如果没有收到,请和我联系.
再次感谢你们的捐赠
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UPDATES ON JULY 12,2005
NEW
最近收到图书馆回复,实物书已经上架,捐款($640)已经用来采购,图书馆给了一个采购目录.
如果你现在进www.opl.ottawa.on.ca,就可以看见这些新书的STATUS,有的(实物)书,已经上架,一些采购的书的STATUS是(IN ORDER).在本次捐赠前,图书馆有大约7-8本类似书籍,现在总数将达到60-80本(最后数字以后确认后提供).(IRIS ZHANG的现在有大约有20-25个COPY)而且借阅的人次很多.应该说我们这次捐赠很成功.
收据还没有准备好,图书馆应该会在发出来的(请看回复),我一直FOLLOW UP.
这是图书馆的回复:
Dear YYYYYY
I have been asked to respond to your e-mail in ZZZZZ's absence.
I'm happy to say that your donation of books was passed on to our
cataloguing department at the beginning of June. Approximately 80% of
the
titles have been entered into the on-line catalogue and are on their
way to
the assigned branches. There was a slight delay in editing the existing
records due to the massive upgrade of the library's automated system 2
weeks
ago. Newer titles require more cataloguing input but will appear on
Horizon
in due course.
Your generous cash donation of $640.00 has been invested in a selection
of
books. I've attached an annotated list of the titles purchased. Please
note
that the list includes the titles you suggested, as well as current
titles
of a more scholarly nature, made possible by your gift. We hope you
will be
pleased by the scope and depth of the additions.
In order to alert the Chinese community to the additions made possible
by
your donation, we have also taken the liberty of making the attached
list
available to the Chinese Culture Centre of Ottawa.
Finally, we have requested that receipts be sent to AsiaPeace. You
should
receive them shortly.
Thank you once again for your timely and thoughtful donation.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXXXXX
ASIA PEACE DONATION LIST
Ordered end of June, 2005.
NB: We can’t promise when books will be available but requests can be placed as soon as records are in Horizon, probably by mid-July.
Eyewitness to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing. Eastgate Books, 2001
Ordered for: CA, MA, and SL
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004
In 1943, at the age of fifteen, the author was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had kept for fifty years.
Ordered for EA, RO, SC
Nanjing Massacre in History and Histiography. University of California Press, 2005
This carefully researched collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment of the Nanjing Massacre in China and Japan and examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy.
Ordered for BE, EP, MA
China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945. M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
Essays by Western and Chinese writers examine recent Chinese-language sources to elucidate a range of subjects beyond the conflict's military dimensions. Primarily of interest to specialists in modern Asian history.
Ordered for BE and MA
Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II. Charles E. Tuttle, 2004.
Author Hal Gold draws on painstakingly collected sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit.
Additional copies oordered for RM, SC
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin. Scholarly Book Services, 2000
Amidst the carnage of the Nanking Massacre, a few Western residents worked tirelessly to save the lives of those trapped in the doomed capital. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary educator, is one of those who saw China as home, the Chinese as fellow humans, and behaved accordingly.
Additional copies ordered for CE, GR, SL
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Eastgate, 1999.
Based on Japanese wartime soldiers' diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and numerous interviews in the 1970s and 1980s with Chinese survivors, this is an unflinching tale of Japan at war against the people of China. A compelling refutation of the Japanese "massacre denial" literature.
Additional copies ordered for RP and SU
Documents on the Rape of Nanking. University of Michigan Press, 1999
The author, a Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto, provides the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape.
Additional copies ordered for BE and EP
Buddhism, War, And Nationalism: Chinese Monks In The Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945. Routledge, Aug. 2005.
Ordered for MA
China in the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Politics, culture and society. Peter Lang, 2001.
A collection of articles written by scholars of international repute based on materials newly opened for research.
Ordered for MA
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004.
Unabridged CD audio version of Iris Chang’s bestselling book. Chang, whose grandparents survived the brutality, describes how the city of Nanking fell, the six weeks of horror following, and the Nanking safety zone created by Americans and Europeans.
Ordered for the shared collection.
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There is a minor error in the reply Email previously sent from Library. The librarian took over the donation after my contacted manager took vacation. She tried to send receipt to "Asia Peace" while this is not a real organization. I have requested her to correct this minor error of issuing receipt. I got their response soon.
>Dear YYYY,
>
>I have been informed that the library¡¯s Financial Services Department
can
>and will send out the receipts to the individuals in your group, per
your
>request.
>
>Best regards to you and the other donors,
>
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Here are some search results in Ottawa library of Iris Zhang's book and other books.
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!395009~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!horizon&term=The+rape+of+Nanking+%3A+the+forgotten+holocaust+of+World+War+II+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1017354~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=14&source=~!horizon&term=China%27s+bitter+victory+%3A+the+war+with+Japan%2C+1937-1945.&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1013155~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=16&source=~!horizon&term=Unit+731+testimony+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1013131~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=18&source=~!horizon&term=American+goddess+at+the+rape+of+Nanking+%3A+the+courage+of+Minnie+Vautrin+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
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UPDATES ON MAY 13, 2005
今天中午,书和FUND已经交给OTTAWA PUBLIC COLLECTION部门经理.
题词最后定稿为:
"To the memory of the victims of the war, the brave hearts that fought, and all who have inspired us to live courageously in pursuing our dreams"
那个PLATE可供留言的地方比较小,只留英文版.
收据将在1个月后左右由图书馆寄出.交实物书的朋友将得到书款部分的RECEIPT(SHIPPING部分没有机会进TAX RECEIPT),FUND捐赠者将收到全额收据.如果6周后还没有收到RECEIPT的朋友请和我联系,原EMAIL一直有效.
实物书要有4-6周时间上架,FUND买的书要到3个月后可以上架.
在此本活动暂告一段落.再次谢谢大家. (散记---待续)
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给OTTAWA图书馆捐书活动散记
当把书和书款和文件交付OTTAWA图书馆时,心头感到一阵轻松,终于如愿以偿完成了大家托付的一个心愿.本来只想捐几本书送给图书馆的BRANCH了事，并不想花太多时间，后来出现的一些捐赠的困难，加上其他自发捐赠者出之内心并非常执着的捐赠意愿和信任才促使我把这当我一个小项目（PROJECT）来处理并纠正中间出现的一点问题并重新策划并最后如愿以偿。受到一些感想的思路的触发,便想写一小段散记来记述一点心情故事.
当今年日本教科书/日本入常/东海采油争端屡屡出现在新闻中,这里的很多朋友们纷纷表示愤怒.并准备抵制日货和游行等.我是支持一定程度的抵制行动和游行. 当我看到本地的主流媒体对此的评论后,非常失望.当时主要的媒体相当程度表示出一种对教科书/日本入常/东海采油的中立甚至极端偏右的态度.加拿大人应该是对被侵略的民族和人民比较具有同情心的,怎么居然还有很多人为当时的罪行做孽者说话? 为什么有很多加拿大人或媒体对中国的一点诉求就往共产党社会制度和大国利益争斗论联系?在1931-1945年段日本对中国的侵略是对中华民族的侵略,这些伤痛和耻辱是烙在全体华人心上的.难道这种西方社会对东方这场灾难带有种族性的一点轻视?有一点是,但不全是.
我并不是这个主意的最早的发起人,在浏览网站后,发现一个叫”jerom”的网友,发贴（http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&forumid=99&threadid=369443）提议捐IRIS ZHANG的书，由于我原来在国内上学时，就曾参加过类似的给边远地区捐书的活动，使我对这个贴子比较注意，上OTTAWA图书馆查，发现OTTAWA这么大的图书馆这本书才几本，其他描写日本二战侵略史的书极少，在馆藏中没有找到西方学者记者写的类似书籍。心中不免感到遗憾，想想日本战后飞速的经济发展和对世界经济技术的贡献，日本游客在世界给其他民众带来的彬彬有礼的形象，每年在广岛长崎的原子弹受难者的纪念，这里（西方社会）还有谁能把这些新日本人的形象和做孽者联系起来呢？犹太人在二张中的被种族屠杀的遭遇现在在这个星球上的中等发展水平以上的国家的教育中没有不涉及的，在书店和电影中我们一次又一次为犹太人的遭遇而扼腕叹息，而我们自己的呢？
我是个很乐观的人，一般总是想一些开心和好玩的事，而想到日本一次又一次的否认历史并漠视他们当年在中国犯下的罪恶。我不能不气愤，不能不伤感。在我的心智中，日常现实的部分大概占70%，想象占20%，伤感占10%。我认为一个人不能没有现实，不能没有想象，也不能没有伤感。
气愤的是针对日本的态度，伤感的是现在越来越少的人能想起这些事情了。开始时印象中听过一个人去年捐中文书给图书馆送到支馆（BRANCH）就可以了，又重温了一些书，看了又多了一些伤感，就下了定单。就在网上发贴了。没想到很多素不相识的朋友同样有类似心愿，有些朋友看了我送BRANCH的表述也直接买书了。后来我们都碰钉子了，估计有5人次去BRANCH都得到BRANCH不收（有些捐书可能要变卖FOR SALE）的答复。我感到过意不去了，不忍心大家的好意没有结果,不得不从网络隐身的位置，现身出来去找一条能够使我们达到目的的途径。其实网络隐身的位置是很好的感觉，可以自由自在地发挥个人的想法。
我并没有文史政经背景，只是一个在这里搞技术糊口的普通人民群众。没有组织的老百姓搞活动只要依靠人民群众的集体智慧了。
第一步是调查，利用周末或中午午饭时间去第二大图书馆支馆去了两趟。第一次是被婉拒（但还是婉拒后，给馆员又多说了几句表示了更多善意，于是得到了跟馆长见面的机会），第二次见到了馆长意见和馆员基本相同，不过我的善意还是最后使她帮我介绍真正管事的总部经理，她让我去找那总部经理，我心想如果她能给那边打个招呼，不就更好吗？于是和馆长沟通希望能否她给那经理打个电话介绍一下？这馆长很帮忙，在电话中和总部经理介绍了一下，这电话很起作用，使总部经理非常认真的对待我的诉求。让我写个建议。
第二步，就要发挥网友的集体智慧和意愿了，网上很多网友并没有就BRANCH的误导而生气，而提了很多建设性的意见和中肯的“左右倾”的批评。嘿嘿，这年头，左右倾可都是要被批斗的。-）。开车还是直着开好，千万别拐弯。网上收集了网友的捐赠意愿后，我心里就有底了。下来就是写建议书了。
第三步，建议书，我写什么呢？写抗议日本？写抵制日本？写反对入常？那确实是我的心愿，但是我啥也不是,说那话就不妥了，我给自己的定位就是人民群众，一个因回忆二战中对亚洲同胞所受灾难痛心和伤感的普通群众，并有一批这样的群众和我有类似的想法和伤感。于是在我的建议书中，伤感的情绪占的比例越来越高，没有看见直接指责日本的词句。出现的是我对白求恩的回忆，对我在战争中在日占区病死的亲戚的怀念，以及后来看的关于犹太人的书籍。使我认为我们一些在这里工作的亚裔认为有必要让这里的人看一些西方人写的关于亚洲（1931-1945）间的故事。而后以一个ASIA PEACE的名义表示捐赠意向。建议中附带了一些对已买书籍和FUND操作的具体建议。这个建议终于被采纳，并使图书馆收下全部已买书籍。
第四步，收集BOOK和书，很多普通捐赠者的故事和想法中给了我很大鼓励。一个捐赠者向我表示，他当年留学的时候就有类似想法，只可惜当时念书没有收入，现在想圆一个当年的愿望；一个捐赠者买了书后得知图书馆有可能不收时,没有怨言,说那赠给其他地方吧; 一个还没毕业的学生一直叮嘱要表示希望加入.
有一点体会和大家分享:
1) 华人的英语语言能力确实和很多欧裔和印度裔,甚至中东人相比有一定差距,但这不是我们去沟通的唯一障碍.我们只要加一丁点勇气,就会跨过一些沟通上的障碍.
2) 我们考虑问题往往是从上而下的,其实我们绝大多数人还是普通的人民群众. 人民群众的感性的故事同样有很强的说服力. 多讲点老百姓的心情故事会从更深的层面去驱使人们去反思那些苦痛的回忆.
3) 积极赞赏: 说实话,OTTAWA图书馆在丰富少数民族民族的读书生活确实做得不错.大家去几家主要的图书馆BRNACH都可以发现中文书籍(相当部分是港台书籍)的比例实际上已经超过华人在OTTAWA的比例了. 没有理由去责怪图书馆没有我们希望看到的亚洲历史方面的英文书.在沟通时,先表示对他们以往工作的肯定和赞赏会极大地促进交谈的气氛.
这次成功是所有捐赠者和支持者们的成功.没有他们无私慷慨的支持,这次捐赠也不会如愿以偿. 他们(MARCH,天涯,陨石,CQLAN,Mr.Zheng,定心丸儿,小傻,MAMIAOMIAO,Mr.Huang, Ms.Chen)才是真正的动力.
我们都是平凡的群众,都有很多自己很现实的事情去操心或担忧,如工作/发展/学业等,但这并不妨碍我们去留一定比例的伤感给自己以外的人,这种伤感并不会使我们懦弱,反而会使我们坚强.这种伤感和坚强会带领我们去追逐我们的梦想. (匆写于5-15周日晚)
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UPDATES ON MAY 12 (THURSDAY)
到周四8:00AM MAY 12为止,共收集
1) 书: 19本. (来之4个捐赠者)
2) FUND(支票): $640 (来之8个捐赠者)
因为想在本周内给图书馆送去,上面收集活动告一段落,还有愿望捐赠的只能看下次别的机会了.
和图书馆已经说好,明天(周五)中午交接.
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UPDATES ON MAY 11 (WEDNESDAY)
到周三8:00AM MAY 11为止,共收集
1) 书: 19本.
2) FUND(支票): $490 (另有一张支票 TO ARRIVE TODAY)
准备在这周四或周五把收集到的款项和书给图书馆送去. THANKS ALL AGAIN FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND ACTUAL SUPPORT.
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UPDATES ON MAY 9 (MONDAY)
到周一8:00AM MAY 9为止,共收集
1) 书: 18本. (另有一本ON THE WAY OF MAILING, EXPECTED TO ARRIVE ON WEDNESDAY)
2) FUND: $370 (还有两张支票ON THE WAY OF MAILING, 一张支票 TO ARRIVE ON TUESDAY)
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UPDATE ON MAY 3, 2005
1) 题词征稿
为了表彰捐助者对图书馆建设的贡献,和图书馆商议后,图书馆将在捐赠入库或购买的书中,加一个3*3大小的PLATE.这张PLATE将贴在树的COVER内第一页)
这个PALTE上将说
THIS BOOK IS DONATED TO OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR( NEED WORDING) BY (NAME OF ORGANIZATION OR PERSONS ) .现在图书馆请我们给个WORDING 的具体措辞.
请大家踊跃提议
2) 图书馆不收取PLATE的制作费用,从图书馆经费出.
3) 书籍收集
请各位捐实物书的朋友,请EMAIL告诉我你的联系电话,英文真实姓名,地址(必须,图书馆将MAIL RECEIPT TO YOU)和你认为方便的场所(你的HOME OR WORK PLACE).(HOME方便一点,如果你的WORK PLACE在WEST END也可以).
我来收集或其它方式(我住KANATA),请告诉我哪种方式对你最方便
4)FUND收集
方式:个人支票
PAYABLE TO : OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY
MEMO: GROUP DONATION (2005) FOR ASIA PEACE
请EMAIL告诉我你的联系电话,地址(必须,图书馆将MAIL RECEIPT TO YOU)和你认为方便的场所(你的HOME OR WORK PLACE).HOME方便一点,如果你的WORK PLACE在WEST END也可以.
我来收集或其它方式(我住KANATA),请告诉我哪种方式对你最方便
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UPDATE ON MAY 2, 2005
今天收到DIANA EMAIL说我们的LIST已经通过审核,请表示捐实物书的朋友,请发EMAIL告诉我你的真实姓名(FIRST NAME&LAST NAME,地址,以供OTTAWA LIBRARY 准备收据用,请准备好购买收据.FUND的具体捐赠办法真在落实.随后附上.
Dear XYZ,
We have had a chance to review your kind offer to donate books and money to the Ottawa Public Library. We are pleased to accept all of the books on the list as well as money to purchase subsequent titles. We will give a tax receipt for the value of the books as well as for the cash donation.
Thank you very much for your interest in the Ottawa Public Library's collection.
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UPDATES (ON APRIL 27,2005)
最后提交的书的LIST有16种书,加上了一个网友在上周提前买的 "Unit 731 Testimony".最后提交的是三份文件
1)给COLLECTION MANAGER的信
2)WISH LIST (上述的16种)
3)已经购买的书的LIST.
有网友给我提供部分"中性"的书目.我也想和原的LIST中的书混合,冲淡一点刀光血影,综合考虑后,这样会使主题模糊.我们的资金也有限.我又看了一些书店里和图书馆里的关于犹太人二战故事的书.使我感觉我们的LIST是正当的,合情合理的. 最后决定采用集中主题的LIST.他们可能采用一部分,只要有50%的书目被采用,也是我们的成功.另外明确如果有已买的书不能入馆藏,我们可以撤回.明确我们买的书NOT FOR SALE.
配合这个主题(尊重历史,热爱和平),我从我个人的理解和心路写了一封3页长的信给COLLECTION 经理.昨天打电话给她,她已经收到我提交的三份文件,并委托手下去办理.
考虑到不要太PUSH人家,今天没有去催,过两天再询问一下.
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Proposed List of Book Donated to Ottawa Public Library
1) << China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 >>
China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945
by Steven I. Levine (Editor), James C. Hsiung (Editor)
Paperback - 360 pages Reprint edition (January 1993)
Language: English
M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 156324246X
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The Sino-Japanese War was a principal source of tension between Washington and Tokyo in 1941, when the U.S. demand that Japan give up the fruits of its victory on the mainland led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the transformation of a local conflict into the Asian phase of World War II. Descriptive accounts of the war are available, but analytical studies like this are scarce and welcome. Twelve essays by Western and Chinese writers plumb a wealth of recent Chinese-language sources from both Taiwan and the mainland to elucidate a wide range of subjects that include but go far beyond traditional inquiries into the conflict's military dimensions. Noteworthy essays cover the wartime economy, judicial reform, literature and art, and China's scientific elite. Editor Hsiung's concluding chapter emphasizes the role that historical memories play in contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. A little heavy for the general reader, this valuable book will greatly interest specialists in modern Asian history.
- John H. Boyle, California State Univ., Chico
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
2) <<American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking>>
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin by Senator Paul Simon (Foreword), Hua-Ling Hu (Paperback)
ISBN: 0809323869
From Publishers Weekly
Minnie Vautrin was a Christian missionary, a teacher and an administrator at Ginling College in Nanking. Having arrived in China in 1912 at the age of 26, she worked tirelessly for nearly 30 years to expand and maintain the school, to educate Chinese women and to improve the lot of the city's poor. But she served her adopted country best during the Japanese occupation of Nanking in 1937, when the city and its citizens were ravaged by the Japanese. During the occupation, Japanese soldiers raped an estimated 20,000 women; that number would have been higher were it not for Vautrin. Turning the Ginling campus into a sanctuary for 10,000 women and children, she created a small international safety zone. She stood up to the soldiers who demanded women to brutalize, and she did her best to negotiate with their superiors to keep her haven safe. She also brought order and hope to the refugees' lives by organizing classes, as well as Christmas and other celebrations. In the early 1940s, however, Vautrin, feeling like a failure, committed suicide. Unfortunately, despite the drama of Vautrin's story and Hu's use of Vautrin's own letters and diaries, the prose here is dry and almost dispassionate, often bogging down in the details of school administration. Iris Chang's recent The Rape of Nanking is a far more poignant account of this period, to which this book mostly serves as a supplement. Photos, maps. (Mar.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
3) << The Good Man of Nanking >>
The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe by JOHN RABE (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages (March 14, 2000)
Language: English
Vintage ; ISBN: 0375701974
From Amazon.com
In November 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army took Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of China and home to 1.3 million people, and began an orgy of murder, rape, and looting. By the time discipline was restored two months later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were dead, with hundreds of thousands more homeless, starving, and traumatized. The Rape of Nanking, as it is commonly known, still causes international controversy, as Japanese politicians refuse to apologize unequivocally to China and school textbooks continue to misrepresent the events.
Like Oskar Schindler of Schindler's List, John Rabe was an enterprising and fundamentally decent German businessman caught up in war. Head of the Nanjing branch of Siemens, the German electronics firm, he had lived and worked in China for almost 30 years. Rather than flee from the threatened city, he stayed to organize a safety zone as refuge of last resort for Chinese civilians. The Good Man of Nanking is his firsthand description of the terrible events and his ultimate success in saving perhaps a quarter of a million lives. The diary format provides a forum for the extraordinary power and immediacy of John Rabe's words, including his gallows humor, placing the reader there in Nanking as the bombs explode and the Japanese soldiers begin their massacres. Rabe's trials were not over when he returned to wartime Germany; diary entries that he wrote during the occupation of Berlin by the Soviet army form a fascinating coda to this book. --John Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
4) <<Comfort Woman>>
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Occupation
by Maria Rosa Henson (Author)
Paperback - 116 pages (January 7, 2004)
Language: English
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ; ISBN: 0847691497
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman.O In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had held close for fifty years.
5) <e Comfort Women>>
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George L. Hicks (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages Reprint edition (September 23, 1997)
Language: English
Norton ; ISBN: 0393316947
From Amazon.com
One of the ravages of war has always been rape, but in the 1930s and '40s the Imperial Japanese Forces made it systematic, forcing thousands of women into sexual slavery for their soldiers at highly organized "comfort stations." Drawn mostly from Korea (which was then ruled by Japan), the "comfort women" who tell their horrific stories in this book were shipped to the front lines and all over the war zones, often arriving in the same shipments with munitions and food. Like those staples, their sexual services were intended to keep an army working and alive; a common superstition among the troops was the belief that sex before battle could magically ward off injury. This searing, painful chapter in history was uncovered in part by a Japanese journalist, who came across photos of the women in classified documents. --Francesca Coltrera
6) << The Burma Road >>
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
by Donovan Webster (Author)
Paperback - 370 pages (August 26, 2004)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060746386
Editorial Reviews
From AudioFile
From the fall of Burma to the Japanese in 1942 until the end of the war, the Allies strove to keep China supplied with matériel from India-by air over "the Hump," and overland via the Burma Road, which stretched 700 miles to the Chinese city of Kunming. Donovan Webster's account of American derring-do in this theater is fast-paced and engaging, the work of a first-rate storyteller. His throaty reading, however, is too rushed, as though he were trying to pack as many words as possible into this drastically condensed recording. It's still dramatic and entertaining, but it feels like only a half a story, one that might have been called ABRIDGED ON THE RIVER KWAI. D.B. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
7) << The Nanjing Massacre >>
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame
by Honda Katsuichi (Author), Frank B. Gibney (Editor), Karen Sandness (Translator)
Paperback - 400 pages (June 1999)
Language: English
East Gate Book ISBN: 0765603357
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Japanese investigative journalist Honda's authoritative study of the Japanese Imperial Army's campaign of wholesale destruction, rape, and murder in central China (November 1937-March 1938) is far superior to Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking (LJ 1/98), a powerful but deeply flawed best seller that made its author an international celebrity. Honda's study, based on Japanese wartime soldiers' diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and numerous interviews in the 1970s and 1980s with Chinese survivors of the massacres, is an unflinching and relentlessly horrifying tale of the systematic savagery of Japan at war against the people of China. He confirms beyond any doubt that the massacres began as soon as the Japanese expeditionary forces landed in Hangzhou Bay, that they were sanctioned by the military commanders, and that they continued not for weeks but months. His refutation of the Japanese "massacre denial" literature is caustic and compelling. Essential for all academic and larger public libraries.ASteven I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
8) <e Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography >>
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography
by Fogel (Author)
Paperback - 264 pages (April 8, 2005)
Language: English
University of California Press ; ISBN: 0520220072
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II.
In his introduction, Joshua A. Fogel raises the significant moral and historiographical issues that frame the other essays. Mark Eykholt then provides an account of postwar Chinese responses to the massacre. Takashi Yoshida assesses the attempts to downplay the incident and its effects, providing a revealing analysis of Japanese debates over Japan's role in the world and the continuing ambivalence of many Japanese toward their defeat in World War II. In the concluding essay, Daqing Yang widens the scope of the discussion by comparing the Nanjing historiographic debates to similar debates in Germany over the nature of the Holocaust. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Joshua A. Fogel is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naito Konan, 1866-1934 (1984), Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit (1989), and The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (1996), among other works.
9) << Rape of Nanking: 6K>> “Audio Cassette”
Rape of Nanking: 6k
by Iris Chang (Author)
Audio Cassette - 540 pages Unabridged edition (November 2004)
Language: English
Blackstone Audiobooks ISBN: 0786129417
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
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 the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
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,...
10) << Documents on the Rape of Nanking >>
Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Timothy Brook (Editor) (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages (December 1999)
Language: English
University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472086626
Other Editions:
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese Army's conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century. The violence was documented at the time and then redocumented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war. This book brings together materials from both moments to provide the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape.
Part 1, "The Records," includes two sources written as the Rape was underway. The first is a long set of documents produced by the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, a group of foreigners who strove to protect the Chinese residents. The second is a series of letters that American surgeon Dr. Robert Wilson wrote for his family during the same period. These letters are published here for the first time.
The evidence compiled by the International Committee and its members would be decisive for the indictments against Japanese leaders at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Part 2, "The Judgments," reprints portions of the tribunal's 1948 judgment dealing with the Rape of Nanking, its judicial consequences, and sections of the dissenting judgment of Justice Radhabinod Pal.
These contemporary records and judgments create an intimate firsthand account of the Rape of Nanking. Together they are intended to stimulate deeper reflection than previously possible on how and why we assess and assign the burden of war guilt.
Timothy Brook is Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, and is coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities and Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, both published by the University of Michigan Press.
11) << The Super Holocaust >>
The Super Holocaust (in China: Remember: 9/18 and the Rape of Nanking
by Dan Winn (Author), Raymond Davis (Author)
Paperback - 152 pages (March 2005)
Language: English
Authorhouse ISBN: 1420809547
12) << The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II >>
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Paperback)
Hardcover - 290 pages (November 6, 1997)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Basic Books ; ISBN: 0465068359
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
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.
From Library Journal
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,...
13) << Rape of Nanking >>
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
by James Yin (Author), Shi Young (Author), Ron III Dorfman (Author)
ASIN: 0963223186
14) << A plague Upon Humanity >>
A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation
by Daniel Barenblatt (Author)
Hardcover - 288 pages (January 8, 2004)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060186259
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Only last year did a Japanese court acknowledge that Japanese germ warfare experiments in China took place during WWII. A useful overview of the history of biological warfare provides a historical context for the gruesome experiments on humans that began in northern China in the early 1930s, linked to the military expansion Japan began during the 1930s and fathered by scientist Shiro Ishii, who figures prominently in the book among the 20,000 Japanese professionals involved (some of whom knowingly distributed tainted food). The accounts of experiments on humans and massive germ warfare attacks against civilians-more than 400,000 Chinese died of cholera after two attacks in 1943-include the testimony of Chinese victims and witnesses as well as some Japanese. While most atrocities were committed against Chinese and Koreans, some Westerners, including American prisoners of war, were also victims. The most thoughtful portions of the book, Washington Post contributor Barenblatt's debut, explore how such atrocities "...coldly preserve medicine's scientific devices while annihilating all its high ideals." Shameful U.S. government efforts, spearheaded by MacArthur, to protect the Japanese perpetrators from prosecution in exchange for their research, even to the extent of characterizing the only war crimes trial that prosecuted perpetrators as propaganda (it was conducted by the Soviets), are well documented. The postwar material includes highly controversial claims of America's use of biological warfare during the Korean War. Although many of the gruesome facts have been published before, Barenblatt brings together the many contexts of how Japan's war machine came to commit medical-biological war crimes on a massive scale, with a final death toll of 580,000.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
15) << Factories of Death >>
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up
by Sheldon H. Harris (Author)
Paperback - 385 pages REV edition (2001)
Language: English
Routledge ; ISBN: 0415932149
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Harris, professor emeritus of history at California State University, here presents evidence from Chinese, American and KGB archives that Japanese scientists used human beings, including Allied prisoners of war, in biologial warfare (BW) research during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The project was carried out in large part by the notorious Army Unit 731 under the direction of Major (later Lieutenant General) Ishii Shiro. Harris, who also maintains that American authorities made a postwar deal whereby Ishii and his staff disclosed their BW data in exchange for immunity from war-crimes prosecution, notes that U.S. intelligence agencies have only selectively released material pertaining to the Japanese BW program. The author inconclusively considers charges made during the 1950-53 Korean War that U.S. forces employed BW agents on the battlefield, possibly with the assistance of Japanese specialists. Scholars will appreciate Harris's assiduous research and analysis, but his dry presentation makes his book of doubtful interest to general readers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
16） Unit 731Testimony
by Hal Gold "In all wars up until the Russo-Japanese War, it had been known that the "silent enemy"-disease-took a greater toll of lives among fighting men than..."
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (April 1, 2004)
• ISBN: 0804835659
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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UPDATES (ON APRIL 25,2005)
今天中午有幸和CENTRE-POINT的经理会谈,会谈气氛良好,CENTRE-POINT的经理并帮我介绍总部COLLECTION 部门经理DIANNA.
因为我已经从不同的渠道,联系图书馆,她知道我在联系.DIANNA对我们的提议非常赞赏.说她们会积极配合我们,并要求我提供LIST供她们审核.她们同意接受我的LIST并审核.表示如果LIST合适的,她们有可能主动采购"部分"图书.(有可能便宜).我仍然表示如果因为FUND原因而同时她们认为有些书很好时,但不能采购时,我们可以提供部分FUND.
这是我草拟的一份LIST,供15种书,也请广大网友积极推荐英文的介绍中国2战时历史人文或其他方面的书.我在AMAZON找了一下,太少了.描写个人在二战中的经历或思想变迁的会非常受欢迎.(比如一个小男孩怎样跟随父母从敌占区冒着炮火向内地转移的故事之类.长大了的孩子回首这段惨痛的经历)....
网友们在推荐书时请参考我的格式.
要求: (TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHED DATE, PAGES, TYPE, ISBN, PUBLISHER, INTRODUCTION等)
请朋友们在晚上9:00PM前给我推荐书目.
请已经买书并没有退成的,和我联系(告诉我你的书名,作者,出版年月,价值等),我要统计数字以便和图书馆方面达成解决的协议.鉴于现在实物书能否有TAX RECEIPT还不明朗,请已经买书的朋友们EMAIL告诉我,如果图书馆表示可以接受你的书并入COLLECTION 但是不能给TAX RECEIPT时,您是否还愿意DONATE?
我个人准备争取请图书馆准备THANKS YOU CARD 或CERTIFICATE之类作为感谢.
donatebooksforasiapeace@yahoo.ca
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(ORIGINAL POST ON APRIL 16,2005)
看见一个网友的关于捐书的提议,感觉很好.
http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&forumid=99&threadid=369443
我在OTTAWA地区的图书馆查了一下,张纯如(IRIS ZHANG)的"RAPE OF NAKING"在OTTAWA 图书馆有
1)中文版 ---- 两本
2)英文版 ---- 三本
遗憾的是我目前在OTTAWA图书馆系统没有看见有非华人参与写的关于南京大屠杀的书籍.
我在网上查找了一下,我发现还有两个西方人参与写的版本(比IRIS ZHANG还要新),现在OTTAWA没有,我已经在AMAZON.CA各订购一本新的,将捐给OTTAWA图书馆,算是我对70多年前的南京亡灵的纪念吧.这里的作者或孩子们写文章喜欢从各个角度,各个渠道找材料.给他们几本西方人写的,会有利于得到更多人的同情和支持.
1) "Documents on the Rape of Nanking"
AUTHOR: Timothy Brook
2) "American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin"
AUTHOR: Paul Simon (Foreword), Hua-Ling Hu (Author)
每次回顾这段历史都是让人伤痛的,也只有记住这段历史,才能使屠杀不再重演;也才能使世界人民尊重理解中国人的情感;也才能使中国的男人们,军人们,长官们知道怎样爱护中国的女人,孩子,家庭和土地.
希望以后看不到象"唐生智将军"一样的空谈死守南京却最后又弃城而逃的人物,多一些死守战壕的普通士兵和抵抗者(象死守台尔庄和斯大林格勒的勇士们),中国才有希望.
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2005 捐书活动后记
本次华人网友自发给渥太华公共图书馆捐书活动圆满结束告一段落. 11位网友共捐赠(加币640元,实物书19本). 总共支出(CAD690.39,US$259.27). 给图书馆捐赠总共14种书,58本(包括19本实物捐赠书). 附上一份详细数目名册和数目.和一个具体在哪些图书馆分馆可以找到这些书(有书号CALL NUMBER,ISBN,BRANCH INFORMATION)的一个INTERNET连接.
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/dengcn/12/2005OttawaBookDonationList11.doc
(要看的话,鼠标放在上面LINK,CLICK右键,SAVE就存盘)
捐赠的目的是下面两个.
1) 纪念在1931-1945那段时间受日本侵略之苦的同胞
2) 增进加拿大首都地区民众对亚洲人民在二战中所受痛苦的了解.
图书馆对藏书管理的原则是根据阅读量和需求,如果很长时间没有人借阅某些书籍,图书馆会清理卖掉FOR SALE. 我希望大家能把这份书籍名单散发给各种有可能关心和利用的人士和社团,以增加阅读量. 如果各位有机会涉及历史社会人文军事学术活动或和本地人谈起那段历史时,也请你们能将此书目散发做为参考.
尽管本次活动成功结束,我仍留有一些遗憾. 中国的二战历史是一段屈辱的历史,也是一段无数军民不屈不挠抗争的历史. 很可惜我们没能找到更多的反映中国军民勇敢抗击日本的英文书籍. 中国在二战中是做出了很大的牺牲的.有英文描写中国远征军(中国驻缅军成功救出被日军围困的英军)的吗?有英文描写川滇贵军在临沂/台儿庄的悲壮吗?当然这需要一些资金,中国大陆和台湾现在经济发展成就举世瞩目.很多本地人现在都认为很多华人很有钱,在经济上很成功. 能否有更多的人帮助很多中文历史小说走向世界? 中国在不断开放,中国在向世界推介投资和经济机会,中国更需要向世界推介在极端困难下顽强拼搏的民族精神. 这是一种SOFT POWER! 这种SOFT POWER会极大的提升中国产品和华人形象.
我有一个小小的愿望,就是在未来再组织一次捐赠活动,主题将是:”二战中不屈抗争的中国军民”, 我在期待更多的描写类似题材的英文书籍.
附:
"PLATE上的题词说明"
我们的题词已经出现在图书的内页中(见最后跟贴附图),实物捐的书100%都有题词PLATE,FUND买的有的贴了,有的没有.说明一点:有部分用FUND买的书后来进目录的,因为时间跨度太大,经过不同的经手人,有可能没有题词贴.就是说凡是以后见到这标记PLATE,100%是我们捐的,部分没有贴题词PLATE的,只要在我那书的LIST上的,也应该是我们捐的.
附: 捐赠书籍全目录 (共58本,14种书,包括19本实物捐赠书)
http://www.angelfire.com/dragon3/dengcn/12/2005OttawaBookDonationList11.doc
(要看的话,鼠标放在上面LINK,CLICK右键,SAVE就存盘)
1) Factories of death : Japanese biological warfare, 1932-1945, and American cover-up
4 copies
2) The Rape of Nanking: (Iris Chang)
20 copies
3) The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Blackstone (Audiobooks)
2 copies
4) “The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan’s National Shame”
3 copies
5) Nanjing Massacre in History and Histiography.
3 copies
6) UNIT 731 Testimony.
5 copies
7) The Comfort Women
5 copies
8) Documents on the rape of Nanking
3 copies
9) American goddess at the rape of Nanking : the courage of Minnie Vautrin / Hua-ling Hu, with a foreword by Paul Simon.
4 copies
10) China’s bitter victory: the war with Japan, 1937-1945
2 copies
11) Comfort woman : a Filipina's story of prostitution and slavery under the Japanese military
2 copies
12) A plague upon humanity : the secret genocide of Axis Japan’s germ warfare operation
5 copies
13) Buddhism, war and nationalism: Chinese monks in the struggle against Japanese aggressions, 1931-1945
1 copy
14) China in the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945 : politics, culture and society
1 copy
Total: 14 kinds of books and 58 copies
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UPDATES ON Oct 3,2005
NEW
最新进展
My Dear Donor
Library has mailed out TAX receipt for your donation. Some people have got mails. Both fund and book donors get TAX receipt.
Along with the TAX receipt, there is a cover letter (Thanks you letter) in the envelop. Please be aware that the letter is written in standard format which doesn't mention our specific event. Our fund is being used for purchasing the books we requested.
Please check your mail recently. If anyone doesn't get, please inform me.
Thanks again
各位捐赠者,你们好
图书馆已经把报税收据通过CANADA POST邮件寄出,部分捐赠者已经收到图书馆信件.支票和实物书捐赠者都能拿到TAX收据. 在邮件和TAX收据一起寄来的还有一份感谢信,这份信用的是统一的格式,经过查验,我们的FUND和书确实用来库存我们希望的书籍.
请在最近检查你们的邮箱,如果没有收到,请和我联系.
再次感谢你们的捐赠
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UPDATES ON JULY 12,2005
NEW
最近收到图书馆回复,实物书已经上架,捐款($640)已经用来采购,图书馆给了一个采购目录.
如果你现在进www.opl.ottawa.on.ca,就可以看见这些新书的STATUS,有的(实物)书,已经上架,一些采购的书的STATUS是(IN ORDER).在本次捐赠前,图书馆有大约7-8本类似书籍,现在总数将达到60-80本(最后数字以后确认后提供).(IRIS ZHANG的现在有大约有20-25个COPY)而且借阅的人次很多.应该说我们这次捐赠很成功.
收据还没有准备好,图书馆应该会在发出来的(请看回复),我一直FOLLOW UP.
这是图书馆的回复:
Dear YYYYYY
I have been asked to respond to your e-mail in ZZZZZ's absence.
I'm happy to say that your donation of books was passed on to our
cataloguing department at the beginning of June. Approximately 80% of
the
titles have been entered into the on-line catalogue and are on their
way to
the assigned branches. There was a slight delay in editing the existing
records due to the massive upgrade of the library's automated system 2
weeks
ago. Newer titles require more cataloguing input but will appear on
Horizon
in due course.
Your generous cash donation of $640.00 has been invested in a selection
of
books. I've attached an annotated list of the titles purchased. Please
note
that the list includes the titles you suggested, as well as current
titles
of a more scholarly nature, made possible by your gift. We hope you
will be
pleased by the scope and depth of the additions.
In order to alert the Chinese community to the additions made possible
by
your donation, we have also taken the liberty of making the attached
list
available to the Chinese Culture Centre of Ottawa.
Finally, we have requested that receipts be sent to AsiaPeace. You
should
receive them shortly.
Thank you once again for your timely and thoughtful donation.
Sincerely,
XXXXXXXXXXX
ASIA PEACE DONATION LIST
Ordered end of June, 2005.
NB: We can’t promise when books will be available but requests can be placed as soon as records are in Horizon, probably by mid-July.
Eyewitness to Massacre: American Missionaries Bear Witness to Japanese Atrocities in Nanjing. Eastgate Books, 2001
Ordered for: CA, MA, and SL
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2004
In 1943, at the age of fifteen, the author was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had kept for fifty years.
Ordered for EA, RO, SC
Nanjing Massacre in History and Histiography. University of California Press, 2005
This carefully researched collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment of the Nanjing Massacre in China and Japan and examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy.
Ordered for BE, EP, MA
China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945. M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
Essays by Western and Chinese writers examine recent Chinese-language sources to elucidate a range of subjects beyond the conflict's military dimensions. Primarily of interest to specialists in modern Asian history.
Ordered for BE and MA
Unit 731: Japan's Secret Biological Warfare in World War II. Charles E. Tuttle, 2004.
Author Hal Gold draws on painstakingly collected sources to construct a portrait of the Imperial Japanese Army's most notorious medical unit.
Additional copies oordered for RM, SC
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin. Scholarly Book Services, 2000
Amidst the carnage of the Nanking Massacre, a few Western residents worked tirelessly to save the lives of those trapped in the doomed capital. Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary educator, is one of those who saw China as home, the Chinese as fellow humans, and behaved accordingly.
Additional copies ordered for CE, GR, SL
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame. Eastgate, 1999.
Based on Japanese wartime soldiers' diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and numerous interviews in the 1970s and 1980s with Chinese survivors, this is an unflinching tale of Japan at war against the people of China. A compelling refutation of the Japanese "massacre denial" literature.
Additional copies ordered for RP and SU
Documents on the Rape of Nanking. University of Michigan Press, 1999
The author, a Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto, provides the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape.
Additional copies ordered for BE and EP
Buddhism, War, And Nationalism: Chinese Monks In The Struggle Against Japanese Aggression 1931-1945. Routledge, Aug. 2005.
Ordered for MA
China in the anti-Japanese War, 1937-1945: Politics, culture and society. Peter Lang, 2001.
A collection of articles written by scholars of international repute based on materials newly opened for research.
Ordered for MA
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Blackstone Audiobooks, 2004.
Unabridged CD audio version of Iris Chang’s bestselling book. Chang, whose grandparents survived the brutality, describes how the city of Nanking fell, the six weeks of horror following, and the Nanking safety zone created by Americans and Europeans.
Ordered for the shared collection.
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There is a minor error in the reply Email previously sent from Library. The librarian took over the donation after my contacted manager took vacation. She tried to send receipt to "Asia Peace" while this is not a real organization. I have requested her to correct this minor error of issuing receipt. I got their response soon.
>Dear YYYY,
>
>I have been informed that the library¡¯s Financial Services Department
can
>and will send out the receipts to the individuals in your group, per
your
>request.
>
>Best regards to you and the other donors,
>
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Here are some search results in Ottawa library of Iris Zhang's book and other books.
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!395009~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=5&source=~!horizon&term=The+rape+of+Nanking+%3A+the+forgotten+holocaust+of+World+War+II+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1017354~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=14&source=~!horizon&term=China%27s+bitter+victory+%3A+the+war+with+Japan%2C+1937-1945.&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1013155~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=16&source=~!horizon&term=Unit+731+testimony+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
http://www.lirico.ca/ipac20/ipac.js...i=link=3100006~!1013131~!3100001~!3100002&aspect=subtab101&menu=search&ri=18&source=~!horizon&term=American+goddess+at+the+rape+of+Nanking+%3A+the+courage+of+Minnie+Vautrin+%2F&index=ALLTIT2#focus
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UPDATES ON MAY 13, 2005
今天中午,书和FUND已经交给OTTAWA PUBLIC COLLECTION部门经理.
题词最后定稿为:
"To the memory of the victims of the war, the brave hearts that fought, and all who have inspired us to live courageously in pursuing our dreams"
那个PLATE可供留言的地方比较小,只留英文版.
收据将在1个月后左右由图书馆寄出.交实物书的朋友将得到书款部分的RECEIPT(SHIPPING部分没有机会进TAX RECEIPT),FUND捐赠者将收到全额收据.如果6周后还没有收到RECEIPT的朋友请和我联系,原EMAIL一直有效.
实物书要有4-6周时间上架,FUND买的书要到3个月后可以上架.
在此本活动暂告一段落.再次谢谢大家. (散记---待续)
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给OTTAWA图书馆捐书活动散记
当把书和书款和文件交付OTTAWA图书馆时,心头感到一阵轻松,终于如愿以偿完成了大家托付的一个心愿.本来只想捐几本书送给图书馆的BRANCH了事，并不想花太多时间，后来出现的一些捐赠的困难，加上其他自发捐赠者出之内心并非常执着的捐赠意愿和信任才促使我把这当我一个小项目（PROJECT）来处理并纠正中间出现的一点问题并重新策划并最后如愿以偿。受到一些感想的思路的触发,便想写一小段散记来记述一点心情故事.
当今年日本教科书/日本入常/东海采油争端屡屡出现在新闻中,这里的很多朋友们纷纷表示愤怒.并准备抵制日货和游行等.我是支持一定程度的抵制行动和游行. 当我看到本地的主流媒体对此的评论后,非常失望.当时主要的媒体相当程度表示出一种对教科书/日本入常/东海采油的中立甚至极端偏右的态度.加拿大人应该是对被侵略的民族和人民比较具有同情心的,怎么居然还有很多人为当时的罪行做孽者说话? 为什么有很多加拿大人或媒体对中国的一点诉求就往共产党社会制度和大国利益争斗论联系?在1931-1945年段日本对中国的侵略是对中华民族的侵略,这些伤痛和耻辱是烙在全体华人心上的.难道这种西方社会对东方这场灾难带有种族性的一点轻视?有一点是,但不全是.
我并不是这个主意的最早的发起人,在浏览网站后,发现一个叫”jerom”的网友,发贴（http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&forumid=99&threadid=369443）提议捐IRIS ZHANG的书，由于我原来在国内上学时，就曾参加过类似的给边远地区捐书的活动，使我对这个贴子比较注意，上OTTAWA图书馆查，发现OTTAWA这么大的图书馆这本书才几本，其他描写日本二战侵略史的书极少，在馆藏中没有找到西方学者记者写的类似书籍。心中不免感到遗憾，想想日本战后飞速的经济发展和对世界经济技术的贡献，日本游客在世界给其他民众带来的彬彬有礼的形象，每年在广岛长崎的原子弹受难者的纪念，这里（西方社会）还有谁能把这些新日本人的形象和做孽者联系起来呢？犹太人在二张中的被种族屠杀的遭遇现在在这个星球上的中等发展水平以上的国家的教育中没有不涉及的，在书店和电影中我们一次又一次为犹太人的遭遇而扼腕叹息，而我们自己的呢？
我是个很乐观的人，一般总是想一些开心和好玩的事，而想到日本一次又一次的否认历史并漠视他们当年在中国犯下的罪恶。我不能不气愤，不能不伤感。在我的心智中，日常现实的部分大概占70%，想象占20%，伤感占10%。我认为一个人不能没有现实，不能没有想象，也不能没有伤感。
气愤的是针对日本的态度，伤感的是现在越来越少的人能想起这些事情了。开始时印象中听过一个人去年捐中文书给图书馆送到支馆（BRANCH）就可以了，又重温了一些书，看了又多了一些伤感，就下了定单。就在网上发贴了。没想到很多素不相识的朋友同样有类似心愿，有些朋友看了我送BRANCH的表述也直接买书了。后来我们都碰钉子了，估计有5人次去BRANCH都得到BRANCH不收（有些捐书可能要变卖FOR SALE）的答复。我感到过意不去了，不忍心大家的好意没有结果,不得不从网络隐身的位置，现身出来去找一条能够使我们达到目的的途径。其实网络隐身的位置是很好的感觉，可以自由自在地发挥个人的想法。
我并没有文史政经背景，只是一个在这里搞技术糊口的普通人民群众。没有组织的老百姓搞活动只要依靠人民群众的集体智慧了。
第一步是调查，利用周末或中午午饭时间去第二大图书馆支馆去了两趟。第一次是被婉拒（但还是婉拒后，给馆员又多说了几句表示了更多善意，于是得到了跟馆长见面的机会），第二次见到了馆长意见和馆员基本相同，不过我的善意还是最后使她帮我介绍真正管事的总部经理，她让我去找那总部经理，我心想如果她能给那边打个招呼，不就更好吗？于是和馆长沟通希望能否她给那经理打个电话介绍一下？这馆长很帮忙，在电话中和总部经理介绍了一下，这电话很起作用，使总部经理非常认真的对待我的诉求。让我写个建议。
第二步，就要发挥网友的集体智慧和意愿了，网上很多网友并没有就BRANCH的误导而生气，而提了很多建设性的意见和中肯的“左右倾”的批评。嘿嘿，这年头，左右倾可都是要被批斗的。-）。开车还是直着开好，千万别拐弯。网上收集了网友的捐赠意愿后，我心里就有底了。下来就是写建议书了。
第三步，建议书，我写什么呢？写抗议日本？写抵制日本？写反对入常？那确实是我的心愿，但是我啥也不是,说那话就不妥了，我给自己的定位就是人民群众，一个因回忆二战中对亚洲同胞所受灾难痛心和伤感的普通群众，并有一批这样的群众和我有类似的想法和伤感。于是在我的建议书中，伤感的情绪占的比例越来越高，没有看见直接指责日本的词句。出现的是我对白求恩的回忆，对我在战争中在日占区病死的亲戚的怀念，以及后来看的关于犹太人的书籍。使我认为我们一些在这里工作的亚裔认为有必要让这里的人看一些西方人写的关于亚洲（1931-1945）间的故事。而后以一个ASIA PEACE的名义表示捐赠意向。建议中附带了一些对已买书籍和FUND操作的具体建议。这个建议终于被采纳，并使图书馆收下全部已买书籍。
第四步，收集BOOK和书，很多普通捐赠者的故事和想法中给了我很大鼓励。一个捐赠者向我表示，他当年留学的时候就有类似想法，只可惜当时念书没有收入，现在想圆一个当年的愿望；一个捐赠者买了书后得知图书馆有可能不收时,没有怨言,说那赠给其他地方吧; 一个还没毕业的学生一直叮嘱要表示希望加入.
有一点体会和大家分享:
1) 华人的英语语言能力确实和很多欧裔和印度裔,甚至中东人相比有一定差距,但这不是我们去沟通的唯一障碍.我们只要加一丁点勇气,就会跨过一些沟通上的障碍.
2) 我们考虑问题往往是从上而下的,其实我们绝大多数人还是普通的人民群众. 人民群众的感性的故事同样有很强的说服力. 多讲点老百姓的心情故事会从更深的层面去驱使人们去反思那些苦痛的回忆.
3) 积极赞赏: 说实话,OTTAWA图书馆在丰富少数民族民族的读书生活确实做得不错.大家去几家主要的图书馆BRNACH都可以发现中文书籍(相当部分是港台书籍)的比例实际上已经超过华人在OTTAWA的比例了. 没有理由去责怪图书馆没有我们希望看到的亚洲历史方面的英文书.在沟通时,先表示对他们以往工作的肯定和赞赏会极大地促进交谈的气氛.
这次成功是所有捐赠者和支持者们的成功.没有他们无私慷慨的支持,这次捐赠也不会如愿以偿. 他们(MARCH,天涯,陨石,CQLAN,Mr.Zheng,定心丸儿,小傻,MAMIAOMIAO,Mr.Huang, Ms.Chen)才是真正的动力.
我们都是平凡的群众,都有很多自己很现实的事情去操心或担忧,如工作/发展/学业等,但这并不妨碍我们去留一定比例的伤感给自己以外的人,这种伤感并不会使我们懦弱,反而会使我们坚强.这种伤感和坚强会带领我们去追逐我们的梦想. (匆写于5-15周日晚)
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UPDATES ON MAY 12 (THURSDAY)
到周四8:00AM MAY 12为止,共收集
1) 书: 19本. (来之4个捐赠者)
2) FUND(支票): $640 (来之8个捐赠者)
因为想在本周内给图书馆送去,上面收集活动告一段落,还有愿望捐赠的只能看下次别的机会了.
和图书馆已经说好,明天(周五)中午交接.
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UPDATES ON MAY 11 (WEDNESDAY)
到周三8:00AM MAY 11为止,共收集
1) 书: 19本.
2) FUND(支票): $490 (另有一张支票 TO ARRIVE TODAY)
准备在这周四或周五把收集到的款项和书给图书馆送去. THANKS ALL AGAIN FOR YOUR KINDNESS AND ACTUAL SUPPORT.
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UPDATES ON MAY 9 (MONDAY)
到周一8:00AM MAY 9为止,共收集
1) 书: 18本. (另有一本ON THE WAY OF MAILING, EXPECTED TO ARRIVE ON WEDNESDAY)
2) FUND: $370 (还有两张支票ON THE WAY OF MAILING, 一张支票 TO ARRIVE ON TUESDAY)
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UPDATE ON MAY 3, 2005
1) 题词征稿
为了表彰捐助者对图书馆建设的贡献,和图书馆商议后,图书馆将在捐赠入库或购买的书中,加一个3*3大小的PLATE.这张PLATE将贴在树的COVER内第一页)
这个PALTE上将说
THIS BOOK IS DONATED TO OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR( NEED WORDING) BY (NAME OF ORGANIZATION OR PERSONS ) .现在图书馆请我们给个WORDING 的具体措辞.
请大家踊跃提议
2) 图书馆不收取PLATE的制作费用,从图书馆经费出.
3) 书籍收集
请各位捐实物书的朋友,请EMAIL告诉我你的联系电话,英文真实姓名,地址(必须,图书馆将MAIL RECEIPT TO YOU)和你认为方便的场所(你的HOME OR WORK PLACE).(HOME方便一点,如果你的WORK PLACE在WEST END也可以).
我来收集或其它方式(我住KANATA),请告诉我哪种方式对你最方便
4)FUND收集
方式:个人支票
PAYABLE TO : OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY
MEMO: GROUP DONATION (2005) FOR ASIA PEACE
请EMAIL告诉我你的联系电话,地址(必须,图书馆将MAIL RECEIPT TO YOU)和你认为方便的场所(你的HOME OR WORK PLACE).HOME方便一点,如果你的WORK PLACE在WEST END也可以.
我来收集或其它方式(我住KANATA),请告诉我哪种方式对你最方便
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UPDATE ON MAY 2, 2005
今天收到DIANA EMAIL说我们的LIST已经通过审核,请表示捐实物书的朋友,请发EMAIL告诉我你的真实姓名(FIRST NAME&LAST NAME,地址,以供OTTAWA LIBRARY 准备收据用,请准备好购买收据.FUND的具体捐赠办法真在落实.随后附上.
Dear XYZ,
We have had a chance to review your kind offer to donate books and money to the Ottawa Public Library. We are pleased to accept all of the books on the list as well as money to purchase subsequent titles. We will give a tax receipt for the value of the books as well as for the cash donation.
Thank you very much for your interest in the Ottawa Public Library's collection.
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UPDATES (ON APRIL 27,2005)
最后提交的书的LIST有16种书,加上了一个网友在上周提前买的 "Unit 731 Testimony".最后提交的是三份文件
1)给COLLECTION MANAGER的信
2)WISH LIST (上述的16种)
3)已经购买的书的LIST.
有网友给我提供部分"中性"的书目.我也想和原的LIST中的书混合,冲淡一点刀光血影,综合考虑后,这样会使主题模糊.我们的资金也有限.我又看了一些书店里和图书馆里的关于犹太人二战故事的书.使我感觉我们的LIST是正当的,合情合理的. 最后决定采用集中主题的LIST.他们可能采用一部分,只要有50%的书目被采用,也是我们的成功.另外明确如果有已买的书不能入馆藏,我们可以撤回.明确我们买的书NOT FOR SALE.
配合这个主题(尊重历史,热爱和平),我从我个人的理解和心路写了一封3页长的信给COLLECTION 经理.昨天打电话给她,她已经收到我提交的三份文件,并委托手下去办理.
考虑到不要太PUSH人家,今天没有去催,过两天再询问一下.
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Proposed List of Book Donated to Ottawa Public Library
1) << China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945 >>
China's Bitter Victory: The War with Japan, 1937-1945
by Steven I. Levine (Editor), James C. Hsiung (Editor)
Paperback - 360 pages Reprint edition (January 1993)
Language: English
M.E. Sharpe ISBN: 156324246X
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
The Sino-Japanese War was a principal source of tension between Washington and Tokyo in 1941, when the U.S. demand that Japan give up the fruits of its victory on the mainland led to the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the transformation of a local conflict into the Asian phase of World War II. Descriptive accounts of the war are available, but analytical studies like this are scarce and welcome. Twelve essays by Western and Chinese writers plumb a wealth of recent Chinese-language sources from both Taiwan and the mainland to elucidate a wide range of subjects that include but go far beyond traditional inquiries into the conflict's military dimensions. Noteworthy essays cover the wartime economy, judicial reform, literature and art, and China's scientific elite. Editor Hsiung's concluding chapter emphasizes the role that historical memories play in contemporary Sino-Japanese relations. A little heavy for the general reader, this valuable book will greatly interest specialists in modern Asian history.
- John H. Boyle, California State Univ., Chico
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
2) <<American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking>>
American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin by Senator Paul Simon (Foreword), Hua-Ling Hu (Paperback)
ISBN: 0809323869
From Publishers Weekly
Minnie Vautrin was a Christian missionary, a teacher and an administrator at Ginling College in Nanking. Having arrived in China in 1912 at the age of 26, she worked tirelessly for nearly 30 years to expand and maintain the school, to educate Chinese women and to improve the lot of the city's poor. But she served her adopted country best during the Japanese occupation of Nanking in 1937, when the city and its citizens were ravaged by the Japanese. During the occupation, Japanese soldiers raped an estimated 20,000 women; that number would have been higher were it not for Vautrin. Turning the Ginling campus into a sanctuary for 10,000 women and children, she created a small international safety zone. She stood up to the soldiers who demanded women to brutalize, and she did her best to negotiate with their superiors to keep her haven safe. She also brought order and hope to the refugees' lives by organizing classes, as well as Christmas and other celebrations. In the early 1940s, however, Vautrin, feeling like a failure, committed suicide. Unfortunately, despite the drama of Vautrin's story and Hu's use of Vautrin's own letters and diaries, the prose here is dry and almost dispassionate, often bogging down in the details of school administration. Iris Chang's recent The Rape of Nanking is a far more poignant account of this period, to which this book mostly serves as a supplement. Photos, maps. (Mar.)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
3) << The Good Man of Nanking >>
The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe by JOHN RABE (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages (March 14, 2000)
Language: English
Vintage ; ISBN: 0375701974
From Amazon.com
In November 1937, the Japanese Imperial Army took Nanking (Nanjing), the capital of China and home to 1.3 million people, and began an orgy of murder, rape, and looting. By the time discipline was restored two months later, hundreds of thousands of Chinese were dead, with hundreds of thousands more homeless, starving, and traumatized. The Rape of Nanking, as it is commonly known, still causes international controversy, as Japanese politicians refuse to apologize unequivocally to China and school textbooks continue to misrepresent the events.
Like Oskar Schindler of Schindler's List, John Rabe was an enterprising and fundamentally decent German businessman caught up in war. Head of the Nanjing branch of Siemens, the German electronics firm, he had lived and worked in China for almost 30 years. Rather than flee from the threatened city, he stayed to organize a safety zone as refuge of last resort for Chinese civilians. The Good Man of Nanking is his firsthand description of the terrible events and his ultimate success in saving perhaps a quarter of a million lives. The diary format provides a forum for the extraordinary power and immediacy of John Rabe's words, including his gallows humor, placing the reader there in Nanking as the bombs explode and the Japanese soldiers begin their massacres. Rabe's trials were not over when he returned to wartime Germany; diary entries that he wrote during the occupation of Berlin by the Soviet army form a fascinating coda to this book. --John Stevenson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
4) <<Comfort Woman>>
Comfort Woman: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Military: A Filipina's Story of Prostitution and Slavery Under the Japanese Occupation
by Maria Rosa Henson (Author)
Paperback - 116 pages (January 7, 2004)
Language: English
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. ; ISBN: 0847691497
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
In April 1943, fifteen-year-old Maria Rosa Henson was taken by Japanese soldiers occupying the Philippines and forced into prostitution as a comfort woman.O In this simply told yet powerfully moving autobiography, Rosa recalls her childhood as the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy landowner, her work for Huk guerrillas, her wartime ordeal, and her marriage to a rebel leader who left her to raise their children alone. Her triumph against all odds is embodied by her decision to go public with the secret she had held close for fifty years.
5) <e Comfort Women>>
The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George L. Hicks (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages Reprint edition (September 23, 1997)
Language: English
Norton ; ISBN: 0393316947
From Amazon.com
One of the ravages of war has always been rape, but in the 1930s and '40s the Imperial Japanese Forces made it systematic, forcing thousands of women into sexual slavery for their soldiers at highly organized "comfort stations." Drawn mostly from Korea (which was then ruled by Japan), the "comfort women" who tell their horrific stories in this book were shipped to the front lines and all over the war zones, often arriving in the same shipments with munitions and food. Like those staples, their sexual services were intended to keep an army working and alive; a common superstition among the troops was the belief that sex before battle could magically ward off injury. This searing, painful chapter in history was uncovered in part by a Japanese journalist, who came across photos of the women in classified documents. --Francesca Coltrera
6) << The Burma Road >>
The Burma Road: The Epic Story of the China-Burma-India Theater in World War II
by Donovan Webster (Author)
Paperback - 370 pages (August 26, 2004)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060746386
Editorial Reviews
From AudioFile
From the fall of Burma to the Japanese in 1942 until the end of the war, the Allies strove to keep China supplied with matériel from India-by air over "the Hump," and overland via the Burma Road, which stretched 700 miles to the Chinese city of Kunming. Donovan Webster's account of American derring-do in this theater is fast-paced and engaging, the work of a first-rate storyteller. His throaty reading, however, is too rushed, as though he were trying to pack as many words as possible into this drastically condensed recording. It's still dramatic and entertaining, but it feels like only a half a story, one that might have been called ABRIDGED ON THE RIVER KWAI. D.B. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.
7) << The Nanjing Massacre >>
The Nanjing Massacre: A Japanese Journalist Confronts Japan's National Shame
by Honda Katsuichi (Author), Frank B. Gibney (Editor), Karen Sandness (Translator)
Paperback - 400 pages (June 1999)
Language: English
East Gate Book ISBN: 0765603357
Editorial Reviews
From Library Journal
Japanese investigative journalist Honda's authoritative study of the Japanese Imperial Army's campaign of wholesale destruction, rape, and murder in central China (November 1937-March 1938) is far superior to Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking (LJ 1/98), a powerful but deeply flawed best seller that made its author an international celebrity. Honda's study, based on Japanese wartime soldiers' diaries, contemporary newspaper accounts, and numerous interviews in the 1970s and 1980s with Chinese survivors of the massacres, is an unflinching and relentlessly horrifying tale of the systematic savagery of Japan at war against the people of China. He confirms beyond any doubt that the massacres began as soon as the Japanese expeditionary forces landed in Hangzhou Bay, that they were sanctioned by the military commanders, and that they continued not for weeks but months. His refutation of the Japanese "massacre denial" literature is caustic and compelling. Essential for all academic and larger public libraries.ASteven I. Levine, Univ. of Montana, Missoula
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
8) <e Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography >>
The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography
by Fogel (Author)
Paperback - 264 pages (April 8, 2005)
Language: English
University of California Press ; ISBN: 0520220072
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II.
In his introduction, Joshua A. Fogel raises the significant moral and historiographical issues that frame the other essays. Mark Eykholt then provides an account of postwar Chinese responses to the massacre. Takashi Yoshida assesses the attempts to downplay the incident and its effects, providing a revealing analysis of Japanese debates over Japan's role in the world and the continuing ambivalence of many Japanese toward their defeat in World War II. In the concluding essay, Daqing Yang widens the scope of the discussion by comparing the Nanjing historiographic debates to similar debates in Germany over the nature of the Holocaust. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
About the Author
Joshua A. Fogel is Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naito Konan, 1866-1934 (1984), Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit (1989), and The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China, 1862-1945 (1996), among other works.
9) << Rape of Nanking: 6K>> “Audio Cassette”
Rape of Nanking: 6k
by Iris Chang (Author)
Audio Cassette - 540 pages Unabridged edition (November 2004)
Language: English
Blackstone Audiobooks ISBN: 0786129417
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
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 the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
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,...
10) << Documents on the Rape of Nanking >>
Documents on the Rape of Nanking (Ann Arbor Paperbacks) by Timothy Brook (Editor) (Paperback)
Paperback - 320 pages (December 1999)
Language: English
University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472086626
Other Editions:
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese Army's conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century. The violence was documented at the time and then redocumented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war. This book brings together materials from both moments to provide the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape.
Part 1, "The Records," includes two sources written as the Rape was underway. The first is a long set of documents produced by the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, a group of foreigners who strove to protect the Chinese residents. The second is a series of letters that American surgeon Dr. Robert Wilson wrote for his family during the same period. These letters are published here for the first time.
The evidence compiled by the International Committee and its members would be decisive for the indictments against Japanese leaders at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Part 2, "The Judgments," reprints portions of the tribunal's 1948 judgment dealing with the Rape of Nanking, its judicial consequences, and sections of the dissenting judgment of Justice Radhabinod Pal.
These contemporary records and judgments create an intimate firsthand account of the Rape of Nanking. Together they are intended to stimulate deeper reflection than previously possible on how and why we assess and assign the burden of war guilt.
Timothy Brook is Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, and is coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities and Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, both published by the University of Michigan Press.
11) << The Super Holocaust >>
The Super Holocaust (in China: Remember: 9/18 and the Rape of Nanking
by Dan Winn (Author), Raymond Davis (Author)
Paperback - 152 pages (March 2005)
Language: English
Authorhouse ISBN: 1420809547
12) << The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II >>
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang (Paperback)
Hardcover - 290 pages (November 6, 1997)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Basic Books ; ISBN: 0465068359
Editorial Reviews
From Amazon.com
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.
From Library Journal
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,...
13) << Rape of Nanking >>
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs
by James Yin (Author), Shi Young (Author), Ron III Dorfman (Author)
ASIN: 0963223186
14) << A plague Upon Humanity >>
A Plague Upon Humanity: The Secret Genocide of Axis Japan's Germ Warfare Operation
by Daniel Barenblatt (Author)
Hardcover - 288 pages (January 8, 2004)
Language: English
HarperCollins Canada / Harper Trade ; ISBN: 0060186259
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Only last year did a Japanese court acknowledge that Japanese germ warfare experiments in China took place during WWII. A useful overview of the history of biological warfare provides a historical context for the gruesome experiments on humans that began in northern China in the early 1930s, linked to the military expansion Japan began during the 1930s and fathered by scientist Shiro Ishii, who figures prominently in the book among the 20,000 Japanese professionals involved (some of whom knowingly distributed tainted food). The accounts of experiments on humans and massive germ warfare attacks against civilians-more than 400,000 Chinese died of cholera after two attacks in 1943-include the testimony of Chinese victims and witnesses as well as some Japanese. While most atrocities were committed against Chinese and Koreans, some Westerners, including American prisoners of war, were also victims. The most thoughtful portions of the book, Washington Post contributor Barenblatt's debut, explore how such atrocities "...coldly preserve medicine's scientific devices while annihilating all its high ideals." Shameful U.S. government efforts, spearheaded by MacArthur, to protect the Japanese perpetrators from prosecution in exchange for their research, even to the extent of characterizing the only war crimes trial that prosecuted perpetrators as propaganda (it was conducted by the Soviets), are well documented. The postwar material includes highly controversial claims of America's use of biological warfare during the Korean War. Although many of the gruesome facts have been published before, Barenblatt brings together the many contexts of how Japan's war machine came to commit medical-biological war crimes on a massive scale, with a final death toll of 580,000.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
15) << Factories of Death >>
Factories of Death: Japanese Biological Warfare, 1932-1945, and the American Cover-Up
by Sheldon H. Harris (Author)
Paperback - 385 pages REV edition (2001)
Language: English
Routledge ; ISBN: 0415932149
Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
Harris, professor emeritus of history at California State University, here presents evidence from Chinese, American and KGB archives that Japanese scientists used human beings, including Allied prisoners of war, in biologial warfare (BW) research during the Japanese occupation of Manchuria. The project was carried out in large part by the notorious Army Unit 731 under the direction of Major (later Lieutenant General) Ishii Shiro. Harris, who also maintains that American authorities made a postwar deal whereby Ishii and his staff disclosed their BW data in exchange for immunity from war-crimes prosecution, notes that U.S. intelligence agencies have only selectively released material pertaining to the Japanese BW program. The author inconclusively considers charges made during the 1950-53 Korean War that U.S. forces employed BW agents on the battlefield, possibly with the assistance of Japanese specialists. Scholars will appreciate Harris's assiduous research and analysis, but his dry presentation makes his book of doubtful interest to general readers.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
16） Unit 731Testimony
by Hal Gold "In all wars up until the Russo-Japanese War, it had been known that the "silent enemy"-disease-took a greater toll of lives among fighting men than..."
• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Tuttle Publishing (April 1, 2004)
• ISBN: 0804835659
• Product Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
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UPDATES (ON APRIL 25,2005)
今天中午有幸和CENTRE-POINT的经理会谈,会谈气氛良好,CENTRE-POINT的经理并帮我介绍总部COLLECTION 部门经理DIANNA.
因为我已经从不同的渠道,联系图书馆,她知道我在联系.DIANNA对我们的提议非常赞赏.说她们会积极配合我们,并要求我提供LIST供她们审核.她们同意接受我的LIST并审核.表示如果LIST合适的,她们有可能主动采购"部分"图书.(有可能便宜).我仍然表示如果因为FUND原因而同时她们认为有些书很好时,但不能采购时,我们可以提供部分FUND.
这是我草拟的一份LIST,供15种书,也请广大网友积极推荐英文的介绍中国2战时历史人文或其他方面的书.我在AMAZON找了一下,太少了.描写个人在二战中的经历或思想变迁的会非常受欢迎.(比如一个小男孩怎样跟随父母从敌占区冒着炮火向内地转移的故事之类.长大了的孩子回首这段惨痛的经历)....
网友们在推荐书时请参考我的格式.
要求: (TITLE, AUTHOR, PUBLISHED DATE, PAGES, TYPE, ISBN, PUBLISHER, INTRODUCTION等)
请朋友们在晚上9:00PM前给我推荐书目.
请已经买书并没有退成的,和我联系(告诉我你的书名,作者,出版年月,价值等),我要统计数字以便和图书馆方面达成解决的协议.鉴于现在实物书能否有TAX RECEIPT还不明朗,请已经买书的朋友们EMAIL告诉我,如果图书馆表示可以接受你的书并入COLLECTION 但是不能给TAX RECEIPT时,您是否还愿意DONATE?
我个人准备争取请图书馆准备THANKS YOU CARD 或CERTIFICATE之类作为感谢.
donatebooksforasiapeace@yahoo.ca
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(ORIGINAL POST ON APRIL 16,2005)
看见一个网友的关于捐书的提议,感觉很好.
http://www.comefromchina.com/newbbs/showthread.php?s=&forumid=99&threadid=369443
我在OTTAWA地区的图书馆查了一下,张纯如(IRIS ZHANG)的"RAPE OF NAKING"在OTTAWA 图书馆有
1)中文版 ---- 两本
2)英文版 ---- 三本
遗憾的是我目前在OTTAWA图书馆系统没有看见有非华人参与写的关于南京大屠杀的书籍.
我在网上查找了一下,我发现还有两个西方人参与写的版本(比IRIS ZHANG还要新),现在OTTAWA没有,我已经在AMAZON.CA各订购一本新的,将捐给OTTAWA图书馆,算是我对70多年前的南京亡灵的纪念吧.这里的作者或孩子们写文章喜欢从各个角度,各个渠道找材料.给他们几本西方人写的,会有利于得到更多人的同情和支持.
1) "Documents on the Rape of Nanking"
AUTHOR: Timothy Brook
2) "American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin"
AUTHOR: Paul Simon (Foreword), Hua-Ling Hu (Author)
每次回顾这段历史都是让人伤痛的,也只有记住这段历史,才能使屠杀不再重演;也才能使世界人民尊重理解中国人的情感;也才能使中国的男人们,军人们,长官们知道怎样爱护中国的女人,孩子,家庭和土地.
希望以后看不到象"唐生智将军"一样的空谈死守南京却最后又弃城而逃的人物,多一些死守战壕的普通士兵和抵抗者(象死守台尔庄和斯大林格勒的勇士们),中国才有希望.
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这个包在学生会的身上，一定会购买足够数量的书籍捐赠！
