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The making of the "Rape of Nanking" : history and memory in Japan, China, and the United States

Author: Takashi Yoshida
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Series: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Examines how the views of the so-called Rape of Nanking, or the Nanking Massacre, have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States, from 1937.

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Material Type: Internet resource
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 Read more...

 
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