This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nanjing Massacre, together with an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the event and related issues. Drawing on original source materials collected from various national archives, national libraries, church historical society archives, and university libraries in China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States, it represents the first English-language academic attempt to analyze the Nanjing Massacre in such detail and scope.
Autorentext
Suping Lu is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals (2004), and editor of Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 (2008), A Mission under Duress: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats (2010), and A Dark Page in History: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Recorded in British Diplomatic Dispatches, Admiralty Documents, and U.S. Naval Intelligence Reports (2012 & 2019).
Inhalt
Preface.- Japanese Military Expansion.- The Road to Nanjing.- Brutality Following the Fall of Nanjing: Large-Scale Massacres.- Small-Scale Mass Executions and Individual Killings.- Raping, Looting, and Burning.- Testimonies by Chinese Survivors and Witnesses.- Japanese Soldiers' Accounts.- International Committee for Nanjing Safety Zone and Westerners in Nanjing.- Media Coverage in English, Chinese and Japanese.- American, British, and German Diplomatic Documents.- Disposing of Victim Bodies.- Post-War Military Tribunals.- Controversies over the Nanjing Massacre.- The 100-Man Killing Contest and Controversies.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index.