false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171305625m/95784.jpg 95784 16 China has endured much hardship in its history, as Iris Chang shows in her ably researched <I>The Rape of Nanking</I>, a book that recounts the horrible events in that eastern Chinese city under Japanese occupation in the late 1930s. Nanking, she writes, served as a kind of laboratory in which Japanese soldiers were taught to slaughter unarmed, unresisting civilians, as they would later do throughout Asia. Likening their victims to insects and animals, the Japanese commanders orchestrated a campaign in which several hundred thousand--no one is sure just how many--Chinese soldiers and noncombatants alike were killed. Chang turns up an unlikely hero in German businessman John Rabe, a devoted member of the Nazi party who importuned Adolf Hitler to intervene and stop the slaughter, and who personally saved the lives of countless residents of Nanking. She also suggests that the Japanese government pay reparations and apologize for its army's horrific acts of 60 years ago. 31912 1991 The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II total:1539|5:22|4:32|3:23|2:4|1:1| 1539 6191 2313 270 4 5 false false Thu Apr 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 02:34:50 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 09 20:01:07 -0700 2008
As a Japanese, it pisses me off how history turned out for the Class A war criminals who never got reprimanded or punished after the war, and it pisses me off all the more for the government's steady and FUCKED-UP denial of its past war crimes. Both the ultranationalists and th...more...]]> 4 4 false false Thu Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Thu Mar 15 12:14:42 -0700 2007 Thu Mar 15 12:44:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 3 true false Fri Jun 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 14 01:05:56 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 21 01:00:25 -0700 2008
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it is, however, excellent memory.

(ahh, see how compelling this distinction can be??)

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I think it is first important to establish that the events that took place in Nanking during the invasion and its occupation did happen to horrific degrees. This book explor...more...]]> 3 1 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 11 12:19:23 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 18:14:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 13 12:11:11 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 16 08:27:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Apr 21 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 06 20:08:55 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 21 20:02:21 -0700 2008
It's a little of both I think really. This book hit me very hard. I've done a lot of reading on this period in history so none ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 20 00:00:00 -0700 2005 Mon Feb 23 09:06:26 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 23 09:15:38 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 09:58:14 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 28 10:03:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 18:47:41 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 18:48:05 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 06:50:31 -0800 2009 Wed Jan 28 09:48:59 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Feb 19 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:13:20 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 19 11:06:23 -0800 2009
I had heard of the Rape of Nanking before, but never realized t...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 25 13:11:03 -0800 2009 Wed Feb 25 13:15:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 17 15:24:50 -0700 2009 Sat May 16 05:00:34 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Mar 25 09:25:48 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 25 09:25:48 -0700 2009
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