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Rape of Nanking Booklist

 

 

Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.

Fiction

  • The Devil of Nanking
    Author: Hayder, Mo
    Publisher: Grove $ 24 ISBN: 0802117945 Date: 2005
    star PWstar Kirkus
    Spine-chilling characters take readers on an electrifying ride deep inside the secret history of one of the 20th century's most brutal events--the Nanking Massacre in 1937--as a young Englishwoman obsessively searches Tokyo for film footage of the massacre and its survivors.
    Updated 2.8.05
  • The Fat Man's Daughter
    Author: Petit, Caroline
    Publisher: Soho $ 24 ISBN: 1569473870 Date: 2005
    In this suspenseful debut novel, a woman travels to Japanese-held Manchuko in1937, intent on stealing the Chinese imperial treasure.
    Updated 11.2.05
  • When the Purple Mountain Burns
    Author: Qi, Shouhua
    Publisher: Long River $ 19.95 ISBN: 1592650414 Date: 2005
    This is the author's first novel, focusing on the first six days after the fall of Nanking to the Japanese Imperial Army in December, 1937. Historically accurate with rich characterization, Qi, a native of Nanjing, sets the stage for the horrors of war and genocide which follow. Has profound allegorical significance in areas of refugee studies, genocide and holocaust studies and issues of tolerance.
    Updated 11.2.05
  • The Tent of Orange Mist
    Author: West, Paul
    Publisher: Scribner $ 21.50 ISBN: 0684800314 Date: 1995
    star PW
    A stunning novel of a valiant teenager and her ailing father who struggle through sweeping change in China during the Japanese invasion of the mid-1930s. Like the critically lauded film Farewell My Concubine, this historical saga dramatizes the plight of intellectuals and artists during a time of social and cultural upheaval.
    Updated 10.31.05

Nonfiction

  • The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
    Author: Chang, Iris
    Publisher: Basic $ 27.50 ISBN: 0465068359 Date: 1997
    Published on the 60th anniversary of the atrocity, this is a chilling, true account of the 1937 massacre of 250,000 Chinese civilians by the invading Japanese military, an action for which the Japanese government has never apologized and never admitted responsibility. With Japan facing mounting criticism over its use of Korean women as forced sexual servants in WWII, this book will reinforce these issues via the media.
    Updated 11.2.05
  • American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin
    Author: Hu, Hua-Ling
    Publisher: Southern Ill Univ $ 24.95 ISBN: 0809323036 Date: 2000
    Hu bases her biography on Vautrin's correspondence between 1919 and 1941 and on her diary, maintained during the entire siege, as well as on Chinese, Japanese, and American eyewitness accounts, government documents, and interviews with Vautrin's family. - Publisher Marketing.
    Updated 11.2.05
  • The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe
    Author: Rabe, John
    Publisher: Knopf $ 26 ISBN: 037540211x Date: 1998
    A unique and gripping document: the recently discovered diaries of German businessman John Rabe, who saved so many lives in the infamous 1937 siege of Nanking that is now honored as the Oskar Schindler of China.
    Updated 11.2.05