The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 : complicating the picture /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.
Description:xx, 433 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:English
Series:Asia Pacific studies ; v. 2
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6378540
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Other authors / contributors:Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-
ISBN:1845451805 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781845451806 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1845452593 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781845452599 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The messiness of historical reality / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  • The Nanking atrocity: an interpretive overview / Fujiwara Akira
  • Section One: War crimes and doubts
  • Massacres outside Nanking City / Kasahara Tokushi
  • Massacres near Mufushan / Ono Kenji
  • Part of the numbers issue: demography and civilian victims / David Askew
  • The Nanking 100-man killing contest debate, 1971-75 / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
  • Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking: the Tokyo judgment and the guilt of history / Timothy Brook
  • Section Two: Aggressors and collaborators
  • Letters from a reserve officer conscripted to Nanking / Amano Saburò‚
  • Chinese collaboration in Nanking / Timothy Brook
  • Westerners in occupied Nanking: December 1937 to February 1938 / David Askew
  • Wartime accounts of the Nanking atrocity / Takashi Yoshida
  • Section Three: Another denied Holocaust?
  • The Nanking atrocity and Chinese historical memory / Joshua A. Fogel
  • A tale of two atrocities: critical appraisal of American historiography / Masahiro Yamamoto
  • Higashinakano Osamichi: the last word in denial / Kasahara Tokushi
  • Nanking: denial and atonement in contemporary Japan / Kimura Takuji
  • Postscript
  • Leftover problems / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.