The Making of the Rape of Nanking: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States
written by Takashi Yoshida, fl. 2001 (Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2006), 279 page(s)
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- Abstract / Summary
- In The Making of the "Rape of Nanking" Takashi Yoshida examines how views of the Nanjing Massacre have evolved in history writing and public memory in Japan, China, and the United States. For these nations, the question of how to treat the legacy of Nanjing—whether to deplore it, sanitize it, rationalize it, or even ignore it—has aroused passions revolving around ethics, nationality, and historical identity. Drawing on a rich analysis of Chinese, Japanese, and American history textbooks and newspapers, Yoshida traces the evolving—and often conflicting—understandings of the Nanjing Massacre, revealing how changing social and political environments have influenced the debate. Yoshida suggests that, from the 1970s on, the dispute over Nanjing has become more lively, more globalized, and immeasurably more intense, due in part to Japanese revisionist history and a renewed emphasis on patriotic education in China. While today it is easy to assume that the Nanjing Massacre has always been viewed as an emblem of Japan's wartime aggression in China, the image of the "Rape of Nanking" is a much more recent icon in public consciousness. Takashi Yoshida analyzes the process by which the Nanjing Massacre has become an international symbol, and provides a fair and respectful treatment of the politically charged and controversial debate over its history.
- Field of Interest
- Global Issues
- Author
- Takashi Yoshida, fl. 2001
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Copyright Message
- Copyright © 2009 by Oxford University Press
- Content Type
- Non-fiction
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 279
- Publication Year
- 2006
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place Published / Released
- Oxford, England
- Subject
- Global Issues, Social Sciences, Customary International Law, International Humanitarian Law, Individual and Groups Rights, Nanking Massacre (1937-1938), War crimes, Historical research and historiography, Cultural identity, Atrocities, Nanking Massacre, 1937-1938, History, Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Japón, Japão, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos, China, Japan, United States, Americans, Chinese, Japanese, 20th Century in World History (1914--2000)
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Direito Internacional Consuetudin‡rio, Derecho Internacional Consuetudinario, Derecho Humanitario Internacional, Legislação Humanitária Internacional, Direitos Individuais e de Grupo, Derechos del Individuo y de Grupos, Japón, Japão, United States of America, USA, US of A, America, Estados Unidos