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Table of 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.

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Contributors:

Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi, 1950- , editor, author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 (Second Edition; New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 — ISBN 9781785336744; LCCN 2017030159)

Subjects:

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 — Atrocities — China — Nanjing Shi

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) — History — 20th century

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) — History — 20th century — Historiography

Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)

Nanking Massacre (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China : 1937)

1900-1999

Historiography

Atrocities

China

China — Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)

China — Nanjing Shi

Japan

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 04, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

DS797.56.N365 N38 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781785335976 (electronic book)
1785335979 (electronic book)
9781785336744 (hardcover, alkaline paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017030603

OCLC Numbers:

992437747

Other Control Numbers:

EBC5014592 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp14716816