The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938
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978-1-84545-180-6 (ISBN)
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December 13, 2007 marks the 70th anniversary of the fall of the Chinese city of Nanking to the Japanese army. The "Nanking Atrocity" of winter 1937-8, also known as the "Nanking Massacre," lies at the core of bitter disputes over history, wartime victimization, and postwar restitution that preclude amicable Sino-Japanese relations to this day. This volume, which is both history and historiography, offers the most recent scholarship about what actually happened in Nanking and places those findings in the context of how Chinese and Japanese writers have attributed mutually incompatible meanings to the event ever since; an event that is coined, on the Chinese side, as "the forgotten Holocaust," after the subtitle of Iris' Chang's 1997 bestseller, The Rape of Nanking, uncritically adopted by Western public opinion, a gross distortion according to the contributors of this volume. However, the authors also deflate Japanese exculpatory narratives which, serving their own ideological agendas, holds that Nanking was a combat operation against unlawful belligerents, which produced only a few dozen innocent victims. This volume presents new facts and fresh interpretations with the overriding aim to "complicate the picture" and to debunk myths, expose fallacies, and rectify misconceptions that obstruct a clear understanding of the issues and prevent ultimate reconciliation between China and Japan.
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi is Professor of History at York University, Toronto, specializing in Japanese political thought and World War Two in East Asia. His publications include Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 1986), Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued (University of Hawaii Press, 1995), and Modern Japanese Thought (Ed.,Cambridge University Press, 1999).
Preface and Acknowledgments
Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table
Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Messiness of Historical Reality
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Chapter 2. The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview
Fujiwara Akira
Section One: War Crimes and Doubts
Chapter 3. Massacres outside Nanking City
Kasahara Tokushi
Chapter 4. Massacres near Mufushan
Ono Kenji
Chapter 5. Part of the Numbers Issue: Demography and Civilian Victims
David Askew
Chapter 6. The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest Debate, 1971–75
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Chapter 7. Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of The Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History
Timothy Brook
Section Two: Agressors and Collaborators
Chapter 8. Letters from a Reserve Officer Conscripted to Nanking
Amano Saburô
Chapter 9. Chinese Collaboration in Nanking
Timothy Brook
Chapter 10. Westerners in Occupied Nanking: December 1937 to February 1938
David Askew
Chapter 11. Wartime Accounts of the Nanking Atrocity
Takashi Yoshida
Section Three: Another Denied Holocaust?
Chapter 12. The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese Historical Memory
Joshua A. Fogel
Chapter 13. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Critical Appraisal of American Historiography
Masahiro Yamamoto
Chapter 14. Higashinakano Osamichi: The Last Word in Denial
KasaharaTokushi
Chapter 15. Nanking: Denial and Atonement in Contemporary Japan
Kimura Takuji
Postscript
Chapter 16. Leftover Problems
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Appendix
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.6.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 735 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945 | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84545-180-5 / 1845451805 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84545-180-6 / 9781845451806 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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