American goddess at the rape of Nanking : the courage of Minnie Vautrin /

Hu, Hualing.

American goddess at the rape of Nanking : the courage of Minnie Vautrin / Courage of Minnie Vautrin Hua-ling Hu, with a foreword by Paul Simon. - Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2000. - xxiv, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-176) and index.

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).

"Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served." -- Jacket.

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Vautrin, Minnie, 1886-1941.


Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)


Missionaries--China--Biography.
Missionaries--United States--Biography.
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.
Missionnaires--Biographies.--Chine
Missionnaires--Biographies.--États-Unis

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