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The history and historiography of the Rape of Nanking.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The history and historiography of the Rape of Nanking./
Author:	Yamamoto, Masahiro.
Description:	593 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3596.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International59-09A.
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9907045
ISBN:	9780599048492

The history and historiography of the Rape of Nanking.
Yamamoto, Masahiro.

The history and historiography of the Rape of Nanking. - 593 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 59-09, Section: A, page: 3596.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Alabama, 1998.

The Rape of Nanking, one of the most controversial war atrocities in the 20th century, occurred in 1937-38 following the Japanese Army's occupation of Nanking, then the capital of China, during the second Sino-Japanese War. A large-scale execution of prisoners of war and men of conscription age characterized the first phase of this incident, while numerous cases of violent crimes committed by individual soldiers happened in the second phase. The Japanese conducted the first phase to ensure the safety of an imperial family member who was one of their commanders, when they faced a large number of prisoners of war, plain-clothed soldiers, and those suspected of having been ex-soldiers. This phase, which claimed a majority of the atrocity victims estimated to have ranged from 20,000 to 50,000 people, was typical of modern warfare in which the distinction between combatants and noncombatants is obscure. The second phase was attributable to the soldiers' lack of discipline, a phenomenon transcending time. Although Western observers initially blamed the incident on the Japanese Army's loss of control over the soldiers, they reinterpreted the incident as a systematic massacre comparable to Nazi atrocities as a result of continuous media reporting about Japanese atrocities during World War II. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial after the war was unable to reconcile these two conflicting images and sentenced the Japanese commander in Nanking to death while finding him guilty only of disregard of duty. Although many scholars have debated the cause, nature, and scale of the Rape of Nanking, emotion and political considerations have affected the course of the debate so deeply that the gap between the traditionalists, who agree with the Tokyo War Crimes Trial version of the incident, and the revisionists, who refute it, has not been narrowed. While agreeing with the traditionalists' criticisms of the Japanese Army's conduct, the author shares the revisionist contentions regarding the number of victims and the questionable verdicts of the war crimes trials.

ISBN: 9780599048492Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.

The history and historiography of the Rape of Nanking.
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