The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 : complicating the picture /: complicating the picture. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.
• Other Names: Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-
• 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 Saburô -- 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.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 433 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 951.04/2; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities -- China -- Nanjing Shi; Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937; HISTORY -- Asia -- China; Atrocities; Historiography; Massaker -- Nanking (1937) -- Kongressbericht; Geschichtsschreibung; Massaker; Geschichtsschreibung; Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century; Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography; China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng); China -- Nanjing Shi; Nanjing; Nanking -- Massaker; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782382119; 1782382119
• Related ISBNs: 9781845451806; 1845451805; 9781845452599; 1845452593; 1845455002; 9781845455002
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-417) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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