The Rape of Nanking

by Chang, Iris

• ISBN13: 9780465068364
• ISBN10: 0465068367
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-01-10
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered--a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written the definitive history of this horrifying episode.

Author Biography

Iris Chang (1968-2004) lived and worked in California. She was a graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminar program at The Johns Hopkins University. Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm (the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program) received worldwide critical acclaim. She was the recipient of the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation award, as well as major grants from the National Science Foundation, the Pacific Cultural Foundation, and the Harry Truman Library.

Table of Contents

Title Page	p. iii
Publication/Copyright Page	p. iv
Dedication Page	p. iv
Foreword	p. ix
Introduction	p. 3
	p. 17
The Path to Nanking	p. 19
Six Weeks of Terror	p. 35
The Fall of Nanking	p. 61
Six Weeks of Horror	p. 81
The Nanking Safety Zone	p. 105
	p. 141
What the World Knew	p. 143
The Occupation of Nanking	p. 159
Judgment Day	p. 169
The Fate of the Survivors	p. 181
The Forgotten Holocaust: a Second Rape	p. 199
Epilogue	p. 215
Acknowledments	p. 227
Notes	p. 231
Index	p. 285
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