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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.
