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Title: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II by Iris Chang, William C. Kirby ISBN: 0-14-027744-7 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (388 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: A good venture, but flawed
Comment: Iris Chang's book attempts to tell the background and events of the story of the Japanese attack on Nanking. However, while I was of course touched by the stories of the people affected, I couldn't help but notice some things that struck me while reading this.
One, for example, is Miss Chang's understanding of Japanese culture and society. She claims in one chapter that the Japanese gave their pilots samurai swords instead of parachutes. I really don't know if I can believe this - I knew a Korean veteran forced to fight for the Japanese who was given a parachute, and I think the Japanese might have held their own soldiers' lives in higher regards than those of the Koreans. Any way, can you imagine trying to stab yourself with a sword in a tight cockpit while plummeting to the ground? It's a bit far fetched.
Perhaps the biggest thing I noticed was Miss Chang's absolute failure to conclude on what made the Japanese commit these atrocities. Her biggest mistake, in examining early Japanese history, was totally going over the Russo-Japanese War! It's perhaps the biggest hole in the book: during this war the Russian POW's were sent back to Japan and treated like kings, and international newspapers proclaimed the Japanese were indeed a civilized and humane society. The other fact is in the book itself - Miss Chang describes reporters from Japan watching the atrocities occur...and then writing bad things about it back in Japan to a dismayed public. This makes it seem like the atrocities were not committed by a Japanese society so bent on Imperialism as Miss Chang attempts to claim, but instead by twisted individuals in high positions.
The best explanation for why the Japanese did these things was actually from a Japanese historian who said the leaders of the time gradually twisted ancient Japanese history the same way the Nazis twisted German history in the 30's. Bushido suddenly became an excuse for mass genocide.
I would use this to perhaps introduce yourself to the historical events or maybe get a biased, Chinese opinion (Miss Chang admits, in the book, that her parents were involved in the massacre). Otherwise, I would not use this for any real sound historical data.
Rating: 5
Summary: interesting book with a "human" appeal.
Comment: To the Japanese that posted here. You have been taught a lie. And unfortunately for you and those who will not beleive evidence, whatever their motivation, the world knows it.
In today's touchy racial enviroment in the US it is unfortuate that truths as addressed by this book get written off as racist toward Japanese (or maybe even asians in a pan-national sense).
What if Germans denied the Holocaust? They would be called on it. And I'm calling it the denying of Nanking. Not to punish Japanese for the "sins of the fathers," but because it IS the truth.
This book has a more "human" appeal rather than a bland book of dates and statistics.
Rating: 1
Summary: Now I understand ,,,
Comment: Reading Miguel B. Llora's review, now I understand the reason why America accused this China's forged crime and took it into the court of Tokyo Trial.
America intended to offset her crime of dropping atomic bombs by producing "Nanking Massacre".
Americans, do you know 100,000 civilians were killed by US air raid on Tokyo Mar10 1945? 100,000 civilians were killed in 2 and half hours!
America has made the air raids on over 100 Japanese cities and continued killing civilians up to 500,000. The most famous ones happened in August. The US atomic bombs killed 140,000 civilians in Hiroshima and 70,000 civilians in Nagasaki.
Do you know 200,000 Japanese women were raped by Americans in their occupation of Japan after WW2? Don't forget, never!
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Title: The Chinese in America: A Narrative History by Iris Chang ISBN: 0670031232 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 28 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: The Comfort Women: Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War by George L. Hicks ISBN: 0393316947 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Unit 731 Testimony by Hal Gold ISBN: 4900737399 Publisher: Charles E Tuttle Co Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Good Man of Nanking : The Diaries of John Rabe by John Rabe ISBN: 0375701974 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Thread of the Silkworm by Iris Chang ISBN: 0465006787 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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