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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
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| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Takashi Yoshida |
| ISBN: | 0195180968 9780195180961 |
| OCLC Number: | 61200823 |
| Description: | x, 268 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Japan : mobilizing the nation, sanitizing aggression -- China : intolerable atrocities -- United States : the "rape of Nanking" -- Japan confronting the Nanjing massacre -- China : in times of civil and cold war -- United States : rebuilding Japan -- Japan : from "victim consciousness" to "victimizer consciousness" -- China : nationalizing memory of the Nanjing massacre -- United States : focus on Japanese denials of the past -- Japan : a war over history and memory -- China : the Nanjing massacre and patriotic education -- United States : rediscovery of the Nanjing massacre. |
| Series Title: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. |
| Other Titles: | History and memory in Japan, China, and the United States |
| Responsibility: | Takashi Yoshida. |
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Yoshida does the field a servuce in bringing myriad insights together in one manuscript... he succeeds in opening windows on the psychologies behind all positions in the debates, and in highly readable prose. He also offers extensive background that ultimately rewards the diligent reader with a much richer understanding of the making of Nanjing. James Orr, Pacific Affairs [a] superb study ... One only wishes there were more books such as this to help us navigate the shoals of Asia's complicated war legacy. Far Eastern Economic Review Read more...
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