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The Nanking Atrocity, 1937-1938

Complicating the Picture
Asia-Pacific Studies: Past and Present, Band 2 1. Aufl.

von: Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
36,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	30.06.2007
ISBN/EAN:	9781782382119
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	456

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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.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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