Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing

by Robert Sabella, Feifei Li, David Liu

Overview

In recent years the international community has begun to scrutinize and, in many cases, condemn the atrocities that took place at Nanking in late 1937. This is all part of a larger worldwide movement in which both nations and multinational groups are attempting to reach closure regarding past atrocities and inhumanities. As represented by the contributors to this book, these activities have an importance reaching far beyond aggressors or victims, beyond admission or vindication, but rather are a search for the common causes of all human atrocities and for solutions that would set humanity on a path toward a more peaceful and harmonious international community.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780765608161
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/30/2002
Series:	Pacific Basin Institute Book
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Fei Fei Li, Robert Sabella, David Liu

Table of Contents

Part 1 Nanking in a Global Context; Chapter 1 The Nanking Massacre as a Historical Symbol, Ian Buruma; Chapter 2 Redressing Grievances: Assessing the Nanking Massacre, Richard Falk; Part 2 Revisiting Nanking: Views from China and Japan; Chapter 3 Causes of the Nanking Massacre, Sun Zhaiwei, Kurt Beidler; Chapter 4 The Nanking Massacre Reassessed: A Study of the Sino-Japanese Controversy over the Factual Number of Massacred Victims, Lee En-Han; Chapter 5 Remembering the Nanking Massacre, Kasahara Tokushi; Chapter 6 The Overall Picture of the “Nanking Massacre”, Higashinakano Shudo; Part 3 Remembering Nanking; Chapter 7 Reporting the “Fall of Nankin” and the Suppression of a Japanese Literary “Memory” of the Nature of a War, Haruko Taya Cook; Chapter 8 Refighting the Nanking Massacre: The Continuing Struggle over Memory; Part 4 Healing the Wounds; Chapter 9 The “Black Milk” of Historical Consciousness: Thinking About the Nanking Massacre in Light of Jewish Memory, Vera Schwarcz; Chapter 10 The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, War Responsibility, and Postwar Responsibility, Onuma Yasuaki; Chapter 11 Toward a Common Historical Understanding: The Nanking Massacre as a Challenge of Transnational History, Daqing Yang;