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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies |
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Named Person: | Minnie Vautrin; Minnie Vautrin |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Hualing Hu |
ISBN: | 0809323036 9780809323036 0809323869 9780809323869 |
OCLC Number: | 41355746 |
Language Note: | Translated from Chinese. |
Description: | xxiv, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | From Secor, Illinois, to Hofei, China -- Administrating Ginling College -- In China's chaotic years -- The year of 1937 and the barbaric rape of Nanking -- The living goddess in the tragic and dark days -- The last days of her life -- Epilogue; Gin Ling Yung Shen (Ginling Forever). |
Other Titles: | Jinling yong sheng. Courage of Minnie Vautrin |
Responsibility: | Hua-ling Hu, with a foreword by Paul Simon. |
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Hua-ling Hu has created a powerful, definitive biography of Minnle Vautrin, one of the greatest heroes of World War II. Meticulously researched and poignantly written, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking describes how a courageous missionary defied the Japanese army to save thousands of Chinese lives-at the eventual cost of her own.-Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking ""Vautrin, a Midwestern farm girl called to missionary service, devoted her life to the education of Chinese women at Ginling College.... In the cauldron of horror that Nanking became, Vautrin, a tower of moral strength, turned Ginling into a sanctuary for 10,000 women and girls, who honored her as their Goddess of Mercy. Hu tells Vautrin's inspirational story in spare but powerful prose.""-Library Journal Read more...

