The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 : complicating the picture /: complicating the picture. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi.
• Authors: Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-
• Editors: Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950-
• Contents: Iris Chang reassessed: a polemical introduction to the second edition -- The messiness of historical reality / Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi -- The Nanking atrocity: an interpretive overview / Fujiwara Akira -- Section I. 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 II. 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 III. 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: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (lvii, 437 pages), maps
• Subjects: 951.04/2; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities -- China -- Nanjing Shi; Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937; Atrocities; Historiography; Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century; Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography; China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng); China -- Nanjing Shi; History; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785335976; 1785335979
• Related ISBNs: 9781785336744
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2017).
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