Preface and Acknowledgments
Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table
Maps
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Messiness of Historical
Reality
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Chapter 2. The Nanking Atrocity: An
Interpretive Overview
Fujiwara Akira
Section One: War Crimes and Doubts
Chapter 3. Massacres outside Nanking City
Kasahara Tokushi
Chapter 4. Massacres near Mufushan
Ono Kenji
Chapter 5. Part of the Numbers Issue:
Demography and Civilian Victims
David Askew
Chapter 6. The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest
Debate, 1971–75
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Chapter 7. Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of The
Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History
Timothy Brook
Section Two: Agressors and Collaborators
Chapter 8. Letters from a Reserve Officer
Conscripted to Nanking
Amano Saburô
Chapter 9. Chinese Collaboration in Nanking
Timothy Brook
Chapter 10. Westerners in Occupied Nanking:
December 1937 to February 1938
David Askew
Chapter 11. Wartime Accounts of the Nanking
Atrocity
Takashi Yoshida
Section Three: Another Denied Holocaust?
Chapter 12. The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese
Historical Memory
Joshua A. Fogel
Chapter 13. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Critical
Appraisal of American Historiography
Masahiro Yamamoto
Chapter 14. Higashinakano Osamichi: The Last
Word in Denial
KasaharaTokushi
Chapter 15. Nanking: Denial and Atonement in
Contemporary Japan
Kimura Takuji
Postscript
Chapter 16. Leftover Problems
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Appendix
Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index
Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi is Professor of History at York University, Toronto, specializing in Japanese political thought and World War Two in East Asia. His publications include Anti-Foreignism and Western Learning in Early-Modern Japan (Harvard University Press, 1986), Japanese Loyalism Reconstrued (University of Hawaii Press, 1995), and Modern Japanese Thought (Ed.,Cambridge University Press, 1999).
"This collection of 16 thoroughly researched articles is a refreshingly candid response to Japanese scholarship that denies or minimizes the attack on Nanking in order to advance contemporary jingoistic politics... the volume provides an invaluable summary of the politics surrounding the atrocity in Japan... Highly recommended." · Choice "This volume is of great use to historians of modern China and Japan, and proves valuable for scholars working on comparative genocide A number of chapters would work well in terms of undergraduate and graduate teaching Taken together, the essays here drive the point home that only through more detailed historical study can we remove the politicized lens of contemporary nationalism which continue to cloud our understanding of the horrendous episode of history." · History "...the vociferous debates over what happened at Nanjing are far from over. Wakabayashi's book has provided an admirable starting point however for approaching the subject with balance and as much objectivity as can be gathered...professional historians and researchers of the period, especially Western historians, would do well to consult The Nanjing Atrocity in their efforts at gaining a more complete picture of the event." · In-Spire: Journal of Law, Politics and Societies "The book offers a much more nuanced approach to the study of the Atrocity, based on new research findings, and represents a springboard for future scholarship. The many shades of opinion on Nanking are represented and discussed with a fairness and balance not often found in this particular field. The book deserves to be read widely, and should be deemed compulsory reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of East Asian history and contemporary international relations." · Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies "All of the articles in the volume are essential reading for anyone interested in the subject..." · The Historian "...Wakabayashi called on his authors to offer cutting-edge, revisionist perspectives based on new empirical research. As such, most of the essays rise to this challenge and successfully undermine many of the assumptions and basic facts employed by both the Chinese nationalists and the Japanese deniers...any scholar or student serious about exploring the significance of Nanjing 1937–38 should have this book at the top of their reading list." · Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies (EJCJS) "This excellent book... is an outstanding contribution to furthering our understanding and conversation about one of the most controversial episodes in the twentieth century." · Journal of Japanese Studies "These articles are presented as point of departure for discussions and not as the conclusion of a debate that will continue to be heated in the years to come. They are essential reading for those who try and understand not only the events of Nanking in 1937-38 but also their importance in Asian politics today." · Vingtième Siècle "The essays are of high quality and are carefully edited ... Wakabayashi's introductory essay sets out the 'messiness' of historical reality very clearly, arguing against melodramatic interpretations ... These essays are meant as a starting point for discussion...Yet for anyone concerned to understand not only the events in Nanjing in 1937-38 but the question of why they are so potent in Asian politics today, they will be essential reading." · Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society "...a timely, valuable addition to a controversial field...The 16 chapters provide a carefully considered balance of historiography and research based on Chinese, English and Japanese sources...[this publication] provides a tremendous service to those interested in the current, especially Japanese, state of the field." · Pacific Affairs "This outstanding collection of essays detailing what is known about what actually happened at Nanjing, and overview of the historiographic battle lines, is an invaluable contribution to an understanding of the 'Atrocity.' These essays provide a compelling refutation of the tired and implausible arguments typically espoused by the deniers and minimizers and also vividly portray the various atrocities committed by the Imperial Armed Forces. This collection also offers refreshing counterpoints to the hyperbole that biases - and undermines - Chinese accounts of the tragedy." · Japan Times
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