Back اغتصاب نانكينغ (كتاب) Arabic Le Viol de Nankin French Lo stupro di Nanchino Italian ザ・レイプ・オブ・南京 Japanese 난징의 강간 Korean O Estupro de Nanquim (livro) Portuguese Изнасилование Нанкина Russian 南京暴行：被遗忘的大屠杀 Chinese
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| Author | Iris Chang |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Rick Pracher |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Nanjing Massacre |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
Publication date | 1997 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 290 (1st edition) |
| ISBN | 0-465-06835-9 |
| OCLC | 37281852 |
| 951.04/2 21 | |
| LC Class | DS796.N2 C44 1997 |
| Website | www.irischang.net/books |
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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II is a bestselling 1997 non-fiction book written by Iris Chang about the 1937–1938 Nanjing Massacre — the mass murder and mass rape of Chinese civilians committed by the Imperial Japanese Army in Nanjing, the capital of the Republic of China, immediately after the Battle of Nanjing during the Second Sino-Japanese War. It describes the events leading up to the Nanjing Massacre, provides a graphic detail of the war crimes and atrocities committed by Japanese troops, and lambastes the Japanese government for its refusal to rectify the atrocities. It also criticizes the Japanese people for their ignorance about the massacre. It is one of the first major English-language books to introduce the Nanjing Massacre to Western and Eastern readers alike, and has been translated into several languages.[1] The book significantly renewed public interest in Japanese wartime conduct in China, Korea, Southeast Asia (including the Philippines) and the Pacific.[2]
The book received both acclaim and criticism by the public and by academics. It has been praised as a work that "shows more clearly than any previous account" the extent and brutality of the episode,[3] while elements of Chang's analysis of the motivations for the events, Japanese culture, and her calculation of the total numbers killed and raped were criticized as inaccurate because of her lack of training as a historian.[4] Chang's research on the book was credited with the finding of the diaries of John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, both of whom played important roles in the Nanking Safety Zone, a designated area in Nanjing that protected Chinese civilians during the Nanjing Massacre.[5]
The book prompted AOL executive Ted Leonsis to fund and produce Nanking, a 2007 documentary film about the eponymous massacre.[6]
- ^ "A Brief Biography of Iris Chang" (PDF). Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WW II in Asia. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-08-05. Retrieved 2007-07-27.
- ^ Edward Drea (2006). Researching Japanese War Crimes Records (PDF). National Archives and Records Administration for the Nazi War Crimes and Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Groups. p. 3. ISBN 1-880875-28-4.
- ^ Foreword by William C. Kirby, in: Iris Chang (1998). The Rape of Nanking. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-465-06835-9.
- ^ Joshua A. Fogel (August 1998). "Reviewed Works: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang". The Journal of Asian Studies. 57 (3). Association for Asian Studies: 818–820. doi:10.2307/2658758. JSTOR 2658758.
- ^ Benson, Heidi (2005-04-17). "Historian Iris Chang won many battles/The war she lost raged within". SFGate. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
- ^ Heath, Thomas (2006-07-31). "Ted Leonsis Takes a Sharp Turn". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
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