Format:
1 online resource (268 pages)
ISBN:
9780809385614
Content:
During the infamous "Rape of Nanking," a brutal military occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937, it is estimated that Japanese soldiers killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese and raped between 20,000 and 80,000 women. In response to the atrocities, a group of westerners organized the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone and attempted to shelter refugees. Among these humanitarian heroes was Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary and acting president of Ginling College. She and Tsen Shui-fang, her Chinese assistant and a trained nurse, turned the college into a refugee camp, which protected more than 10,000 women and children during the height of the ordeal. Even though both women were exhausted mentally and physically from caring for so many, they kept detailed diaries during the massacre. The Undaunted Women of Nanking juxtaposes the two women's wartime diaries day-by-day from December 8, 1937, through March 1, 1938. Both diaries provide vital eyewitness accounts of the Rape of Nanking and are unique in their focus on the Ginling refugee camp and the sufferings of women and children. Tsen Shui-fang's diary is the only known daily account by a Chinese national written during the crisis and not retrospectively. As such, it records a unique perspective: that of a woman grappling with feelings of anger, sorrow, and compassion as she witnesses the atrocities being committed in her war-torn country. Tsen Shui-fang's diary has never before been published in English, and this is its first translation. Editors Hua-ling Hu and Zhang Lian-hong have added many informative annotations to the diary entries from sources including the proceedings of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial of 1946, Vautrin's correspondence, John Rabe's diary, and other historical documents. Also included are biographical sketches
Content:
Cover -- Jacket Flaps -- Book Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Maps -- Introduction -- Biographical Sketches -- A Note on the Two Diaries -- 1. Receiving Refugees at Ginling College under Intensifying Bombardment -- 2. Japanese Occupation of Nanking-Soldiers' Rampage, Residents' Terror -- Gallery -- 3. Observing Holidays in a Time of Horror and the Refugees' "Goddess of Mercy -- 4. Registration of Women and the Return of American and European Diplomats -- 5. Life and Problems inside the Ginling Camp -- 6. The Japanese Demand to Close Refugee Camps and Vautrin's Defiance -- 7. Slowly Restoring Law and Order but Soldiers Keep Searching for Hwa Gu-Niang -- Aftermath -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- Author Bios -- Back Cover.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780809329632
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780809329632
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1354629
