The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 : complicating the picture

著者

• Wakabayashi, Bob Tadashi

書誌事項

The Nanking atrocity, 1937-38 : complicating the picture

edited by Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi

（Asia Pacific studies, v. 2）

Berghahn Books, 2008

1st pbk. ed

• : pbk

注記

"First paperback edition published in 2008"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-417) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

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.

目次

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 Saburo 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

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA85938888
• ISBN:
  • 9781845455002
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: New York
• ページ数/冊数: xx, 433 p.
• 大きさ: 23 cm
• 分類:
  • DC22 : 951.042
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities -- China -- Nanjing Shi
  • LCSH : Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937
  • LCSH : Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History -- 20th century -- Historiography
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA78916921