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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 940.53 EAN: 9780472086627 ISBN: 0472086626 Label: University of Michigan Press Manufacturer: University of Michigan Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: December 03, 1999 Publisher: University of Michigan Press Studio: University of Michigan Press Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: The Japanese Army's invasion of China in 1937 was the first step toward a hemispheric war that would last until the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945. What ended in one atrocity began with another: the savage military takeover of China's capital city, which quickly became known as the Rape of Nanking. The Japanese Army's conduct from December 1937 to February 1938 constitutes one of the most barbarous events not just of the war but of the century. The violence was documented at the time and then redocumented during the war crimes trial in Tokyo after the war. This book brings together materials from both moments to provide the first comprehensive dossier of primary sources on the Rape. Part 1, "The Records," includes two sources written as the Rape was underway. The first is a long set of documents produced by the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone, a group of foreigners who strove to protect the Chinese residents. The second is a series of letters that American surgeon Dr. Robert Wilson wrote for his family during the same period. These letters are published here for the first time. The evidence compiled by the International Committee and its members would be decisive for the indictments against Japanese leaders at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo. Part 2, "The Judgments," reprints portions of the tribunal's 1948 judgment dealing with the Rape of Nanking, its judicial consequences, and sections of the dissenting judgment of Justice Radhabinod Pal. These contemporary records and judgments create an intimate firsthand account of the Rape of Nanking. Together they are intended to stimulate deeper reflection than previously possible on how and why we assess and assign the burden of war guilt. Timothy Brook is Professor of Chinese History and Associate Director of the Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, University of Toronto, and is coeditor of Nation Work: Asian Elites and National Identities and Culture and Economy: The Shaping of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, both published by the University of Michigan Press. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Very Readable Primary Source Collection on Nanking MassacreI would highly recommend this book to anyone who desires to read primary source accounts of the war crimes committed by units of the Japanese Imperial Army in Nanking during 1937-38. The book is divided into 2 areas: The first section covers items of evidence, including correspondence to Japanese authorities in Nanking and numerous eyewitness accounts as transcribed by the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone. Heart-wrenching letters composed by Dr. Robert Wilson are also included ... Read More Rating: - A first hand account on a long hidden matterBeware of a person who sign "Hiromi". He (or she ?) has commented all the books on this subject and writes like a rith-wing extremist revisionnist. Rating:  - Good resouce, if you read it in fair mindThe Documents of the Nanking Safety Zone is a first-class contemporary resource that lets you get the picture of what happened and not happened in Nanking in December 1937. Members of The International Committee of the Nanking Safety Zone were of anti-Japanese sentiment, but were honest enough to wrote things like that they were unable to separate civilian refugees to the soldiers in civilian clothes hiding in the Safety Zone (that is violation of the International law) although they make protests ... Read More Rating:  - What Really Happened in Nanking?If you really need to know, you should read the following books: What Really Happened in Nanking by Tanaka Masaaki The Alleged "Nanking Massacre": Japan's rebuttal to China's forged claims by Tadao Takemoto, Yasuo Ohara Nanking : Anatomy of an Atrocity by Masahiro Yamamoto Rating: - Basic Documents on the Nanking atrocityThis book consists of four sets of documents on the Nanking atrocity which took place in 1937 - 1938. The first set is a part of the official documents of the Nanking Safety Zone from December 14, 1937 to February 19, 1938 which was edited and published by Hsu Shuhsi in 1939. These documents were also used in H.J.Timperley's "What War Means: The Japanese Terror in China" and found in Rabe's diaries that were published as "The Good Man of Nanking". The Hsu Shuhsi's book was excerpted and submitted ... Read More 
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