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The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes) (Hardcover)

by Charles Maier (Foreword), Joshua A. Fogel (Editor) "More than sixty years have passed since the series of historical events now called the Nanjing Massacre (also known as the Nanjing Atrocity and the..." (more)

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Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: University of California Press (5 Mar 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0520220064
ISBN-13: 978-0520220065
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.7 x 2.4 cm

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The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II. On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China. According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000. This carefully researched, intelligent collection of original essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan. The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II. In his introduction, Joshua A. Fogel raises the significant moral and historiographical issues that frame the other essays. Mark Eykholt then provides an account of postwar Chinese responses to the massacre.Takashi Yoshida assesses the attempts to downplay the incident and its effects, providing a revealing analysis of Japanese debates over Japan's role in the world and the continuing ambivalence of many Japanese toward their defeat in World War II. In the concluding essay, Daqing Yang widens the scope of the discussion by comparing the Nanjing historiographic debates to similar debates in Germany over the nature of the Holocaust.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Misreading and Misconception, 10 May 2004

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This review is from: The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography (Asia: Local Studies/ Global Themes) (Paperback)

In China, a dynasty's history is written by its conqueror so that the conquest is totally justified.
At Tokyo Trial, a.k.a. International Military Tribunal for the Far East, the Allied powers, especially the U.S.A. and the Soviet Union and China, did the same thing to Japan.
To justify their own atrocities against the Japanese civilians, such as the U.S.A.'s atomic bombings on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and other carpet bombings with napalm on over 60 cities of Japan, Soviet Union's unlawful attack on the Japanese residents in Manchuria, lots of, lots of "more barbaric crimes" were needed to be fabricated at the trial.
Furthermore, most importantly, the fabricated history should be regarded as "legally" validated truths.
In the following 7 year occupation of Japan, the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers (SCAP) and the General Head Quarter (GHQ) ran a "brain washing" programme called "War Guilt Information Programme" in order to "disarm" Japanese fighting spirit that concerned the U.S. authority a lot. It completed with the meticulous censorship that covered over the whole media, publications and education. Even the very existence of the censorship was completely concealed.
I have to admit that the "brain washing" have been very successful as regards the whole world still believe the judgments of the trial are all true, with the exception of some patriotic Japanese scholars and researchers who are trying to refute the unjust accusations Japan had to accept.

By the way, I rated this book with 3 stars just because it has good, extensive bibliography including the books that demonstrate how the Tokyo Trial proceeded one-sidedly, that how the "Nanking Massacre" story have been fabricated for the propaganda purposes and that debunk most of those alleged atrocities of the Japanese Imperial Army.
Not to mention the contemporary documents that, in fact, admit no massacre was actually witnessed by those "objective" foreigners other than the Chinese Army propagandists.

In fact, according to a document written by the Chinese prosecutor of Nanking Justice Court, when the Court sent people to interview citizens of Nanking after the war ended, almost nobody accused the Japanese Army. Furthermore, some even claimed that the atrocities occurred in Nanking were, actually, done by the Chinese Army.

Those are the facts that every scholarly work should include at least for verification. And if you read those books, written by so-called "Massacre Denial Faction" authors like Higashinakano Shudo and Tanaka Masaaki etc..., you should get much broader picture of what really happened in Nanking, December 1937.

Unfortunately, however, the authors of this book simply dismissed the denial theses without examining them while ignoring their own misreading and misconception towards whole issue. Consequently, they grossly failed to make good counter-arguments to the denial theses. That means, I hate to say this but, this book is just another representative of "Nanking Massacre" theses that are unsubstantiated and sloppy, and yet emotional enough to make a forced analogy as if denying the "Nanking Massacre" is the same horrible act as the denial of the Nazi Holocaust.
Precisely because of that belief, it appears, they would never come to think that the denial theses of the massacre may contain some truths, like Inquisitors never recognised the heliocentric theory.
Maybe, it is these people who must face some painful truths, not the Japanese they are accusing.

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