Rape of NAnking
A hole in our historical memory has been filled by Iris Chang’s new book, which gives us a detailed, documented account of the events, which took place from December 1937 to January 1938 known as the Rape of Nanking. Following the fall of the city of Nanjing, the capital of Nationalist China, to the Japanese on December 13, 1937, the Imperial Army went on a killing spree, slaughtering over 300,000 of the city’s residents. The word "slaughter" is used advisedly: the Japanese soldiers subjected their victims to mass incineration, death by freezing, being torn apart by dogs, disembowelment, and beheading.One of the most unpalatable episodes of the Japanese postwar inability to come to terms with their nation’s war guilt is the attempt by prominent politicians either to deny that the Nanjing massacre took place, or to downplay the extent of the killings. Iris Chang takes great care to cross-check her sources for this book, citing archival and statistical work by scholars who have compared the population of Nanjing before and after the massacre to produce trustworthy assessments of how many people really died. However, the Rape of Nanking was not simply a question of numbers killed. How the victims died is equal
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Approximate Word count = 1029
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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