The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography

Informationen zum Autor Joshua A. Fogel is Professor of History at the University of California! Santa Barbara. He is the author of Politics and Sinology: The Case of Naito Konan! 1866-1934 (1984)! Nakae Ushikichi in China: The Mourning of Spirit (1989)! and The Literature of Travel in the Japanese Rediscovery of China! 1862-1945 (1996)! among other works. Klappentext A compelling historiographic study of the Rape of Nanjing during the Sino-Japanese War of 1937-1945! one of the worst atrocities of all times! and of the event's repercussions. Zusammenfassung The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II. In his introduction, Joshua A. Fogel raises the significant moral and historiographical issues that frame the other essays. Mark Eykholt then provides an account of postwar Chinese responses to the massacre. Takashi Yoshida assesses the attempts to downplay the incident and its effects, providing a revealing analysis of Japanese debates over Japan's role in the world and the continuing ambivalence of many Japanese toward their defeat in World War II. In the concluding essay, Daqing Yang widens the scope of the discussion by comparing the Nanjing historiographic debates to similar debates in Germany over the nature of the Holocaust. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Charles S. Maier 1. Introduction: The Nanjing Massacre in History Joshua A. Fogel 2. Aggression! Victimization! and Chinese Historiography of the Nanjing Massacre 11 Mark Eykholt 3. A Battle over History: The Nanjing Massacre in Japan 70 Takashi Yoshida 4. The Challenges of the Nanjing Massacre: Reflections on Historical Inquiry 133 Daqing Yang Glossary Bibliography Contributors Index ...

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• Authors: Joshua A. Fogel, Fogel/Maier
• Assisted by: Joshua A. Fogel (Editor), Charles S. Maier (Editor), Charles S. Maier (Foreword), Maier Charles S. (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2000
• EAN: 9780520220072
• ISBN: 978-0-520-22007-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 227 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes; Asia: Local Studies/Global The; Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Japan, China, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Historiography, HISTORY / Asia / China, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, Historiography, Second World War, Regional Studies, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Regional / International studies, Asian History, Modern warfare, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / General