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Nanking : anatomy of an atrocity

Author: Masahiro Yamamoto
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Yamamoto, Masahiro, 1959-
Nanking.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)606404162
Online version:
Yamamoto, Masahiro, 1959-
Nanking.
Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000
(OCoLC)609088127
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Masahiro Yamamoto
ISBN: 0275969045 9780275969042
OCLC Number: 42921407
Description: xv, 352 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
Contents: 1 What Causes War Atrocities: A Historical Analysis 9 --
History of War Atrocities 10 --
Atrocities in Asia 20 --
2 Battle of Shanghai and the Prelude to Nanking 38 --
Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of Shanghai 38 --
Japanese Army's March to Nanking 51 --
Fall of Nanking 61 --
3 Nanking: Analysis of Military Actions and Number of Victims 81 --
Casualties for which the Chinese Forces Were Responsible 83 --
Combat Casualties 84 --
Execution of Plainclothes Soldiers, POWs, and Men of Conscription Age 90 --
Total Number of Victims 109 --
4 Nanking: Analysis of Individually Committed Crimes and Nature of Atrocities 128 --
Crimes Individually Committed 128 --
Nature and Causes of Atrocities in Nanking 138 --
5 Aftermath and Reaction until 1945 158 --
Japan 158 --
China 166 --
West (Especially the United States) 169 --
6 War Crimes Trials 190 --
Chinese Preparations for War Crimes Trials 190 --
Trial of Tani Hisao 194 --
Trial of Three Officers--Mukai, Noda, and Tanaka 196 --
Tokyo War Crimes Trial 199 --
7 Sounds of Controversy 234 --
Start and Renewal of Controversy 235 --
Critical Review and Analysis of Revisionist Views 239 --
Critical Review and Analysis of Traditionalist Views 246 --
Emergence of Centrist Views and the Balance Sheet of the Debate 251 --
Recent Chinese and Western Views 258 --
Nanking and the Holocaust: Historiographical Analysis 262 --
Summary of the Rape of Nanking Debate: Analogy with a Court of Law 270 --
Appendix A Japanese and Chinese Forces in Nanking 291 --
Appendix B Burial Statistics of Red Swastika Society in Nanking 295 --
Appendix C Burial Records of Ch'ung-shan-t'ang 299 --
Appendix D Civilian Losses Based on Smythe's Data 303.
Responsibility: Masahiro Yamamoto.
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