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Nanking : anatomy of an atrocity / Masahiro Yamamoto.

By: Publication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.Description: xv, 352 p. : maps ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0275969045 (alk. paper)
  • 9780275969042 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Nanking.; Online version:: Nanking.DDC classification:
  • 951/.136 21
LOC classification:
  • DS796.N2 Y35 2000
Contents:
1 What Causes War Atrocities: A Historical Analysis 9 -- History of War Atrocities 10 -- Atrocities in Asia 20 -- 2 Battle of Shanghai and the Prelude to Nanking 38 -- Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of Shanghai 38 -- Japanese Army's March to Nanking 51 -- Fall of Nanking 61 -- 3 Nanking: Analysis of Military Actions and Number of Victims 81 -- Casualties for which the Chinese Forces Were Responsible 83 -- Combat Casualties 84 -- Execution of Plainclothes Soldiers, POWs, and Men of Conscription Age 90 -- Total Number of Victims 109 -- 4 Nanking: Analysis of Individually Committed Crimes and Nature of Atrocities 128 -- Crimes Individually Committed 128 -- Nature and Causes of Atrocities in Nanking 138 -- 5 Aftermath and Reaction until 1945 158 -- Japan 158 -- China 166 -- West (Especially the United States) 169 -- 6 War Crimes Trials 190 -- Chinese Preparations for War Crimes Trials 190 -- Trial of Tani Hisao 194 -- Trial of Three Officers--Mukai, Noda, and Tanaka 196 -- Tokyo War Crimes Trial 199 -- 7 Sounds of Controversy 234 -- Start and Renewal of Controversy 235 -- Critical Review and Analysis of Revisionist Views 239 -- Critical Review and Analysis of Traditionalist Views 246 -- Emergence of Centrist Views and the Balance Sheet of the Debate 251 -- Recent Chinese and Western Views 258 -- Nanking and the Holocaust: Historiographical Analysis 262 -- Summary of the Rape of Nanking Debate: Analogy with a Court of Law 270 -- Appendix A Japanese and Chinese Forces in Nanking 291 -- Appendix B Burial Statistics of Red Swastika Society in Nanking 295 -- Appendix C Burial Records of Ch'ung-shan-t'ang 299 -- Appendix D Civilian Losses Based on Smythe's Data 303.
Summary: Annotation Drawing on English, Chinese, and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-343) and index.

Annotation Drawing on English, Chinese, and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.

1 What Causes War Atrocities: A Historical Analysis 9 -- History of War Atrocities 10 -- Atrocities in Asia 20 -- 2 Battle of Shanghai and the Prelude to Nanking 38 -- Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of Shanghai 38 -- Japanese Army's March to Nanking 51 -- Fall of Nanking 61 -- 3 Nanking: Analysis of Military Actions and Number of Victims 81 -- Casualties for which the Chinese Forces Were Responsible 83 -- Combat Casualties 84 -- Execution of Plainclothes Soldiers, POWs, and Men of Conscription Age 90 -- Total Number of Victims 109 -- 4 Nanking: Analysis of Individually Committed Crimes and Nature of Atrocities 128 -- Crimes Individually Committed 128 -- Nature and Causes of Atrocities in Nanking 138 -- 5 Aftermath and Reaction until 1945 158 -- Japan 158 -- China 166 -- West (Especially the United States) 169 -- 6 War Crimes Trials 190 -- Chinese Preparations for War Crimes Trials 190 -- Trial of Tani Hisao 194 -- Trial of Three Officers--Mukai, Noda, and Tanaka 196 -- Tokyo War Crimes Trial 199 -- 7 Sounds of Controversy 234 -- Start and Renewal of Controversy 235 -- Critical Review and Analysis of Revisionist Views 239 -- Critical Review and Analysis of Traditionalist Views 246 -- Emergence of Centrist Views and the Balance Sheet of the Debate 251 -- Recent Chinese and Western Views 258 -- Nanking and the Holocaust: Historiographical Analysis 262 -- Summary of the Rape of Nanking Debate: Analogy with a Court of Law 270 -- Appendix A Japanese and Chinese Forces in Nanking 291 -- Appendix B Burial Statistics of Red Swastika Society in Nanking 295 -- Appendix C Burial Records of Ch'ung-shan-t'ang 299 -- Appendix D Civilian Losses Based on Smythe's Data 303.

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