Political Centres, Progressive Narratives and Cultural Trauma
Coming to Terms with the Nanjing Massacre in China, 1937–1979
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20041141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Xiaohong Xu (0000-0001-9970-2173, Hiroshima City University), Lyn Spillman (0000-0003-0725-2457, University of Georgia) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Pages | 101-128 |
| Publication date | 2010-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Northeast Asia's Difficult Past (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan UK (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1057/9780230277427_5 |
| OpenAlex | W2494887155 |
| ISBN | 9780230277427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 13 |
In December 1937, about two years before World War II broke out in Europe, the Imperial Japanese Army captured Nanjing, then capital of China. The conquering army turned the city into a hell. Over a period of six weeks, the Japanese carried out wanton killings, rapes and lootings on a large scale. Thousands of civilians and prisoners of war were killed by shooting, bayoneting, decapitating, burning, and burying alive. Thousands of women were raped, and most were later murdered as the Japanese perpetrators tried to destroy the evidence. Western media, like the Manchester Guardian and New York Times, covered the “barbarian” acts of the Japanese soldiers immediately, admonishing their readers about the evil of war, as another world war loomed in Europe.1
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Barbarian · China · Economic history · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Chinese history and philosophy · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2023 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |