Nanking : anatomy of an atrocity / Masahiro Yamamoto.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yamamoto, Masahiro, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China)--History.

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China).

Physical Description:

xv, 352 pages : maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2000.

Summary:

Drawing on English, Chinese, and Japanese sources, this study challenges the prevailing view that the Rape of Nanking was a deliberate, planned effort on the part of the Japanese military and concludes that it was instead an unfortunate tragedy of conventional warfare.

Contents:

1 What Causes War Atrocities: A Historical Analysis 9

History of War Atrocities 10

Atrocities in Asia 20

2 The Battle of Shanghai and the Prelude to Nanking 38

The Outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of Shanghai 38

Japanese Army's March to Nanking 51

Fall of Nanking 61

3 Nanking: Analysis of Military Actions and Number of Victims 81

Casualties for which the Chinese Forces Were Responsible 83

Combat Casualties 84

Execution of Plainclothes Soldiers, POWs, and Men of Conscription Age 90

Total Number of Victims 109

4 Nanking: Analysis of Individually Committed Crimes and Nature of Atrocities 128

Crimes Individually Committed 128

Nature and Causes of Atrocities in Nanking 138

5 Aftermath and Reaction until 1945 158

Japan 158

China 166

The West (Especially the United States) 169

6 War Crimes Trials 190

Chinese Preparations for War Crimes Trials 190

Trial of Tani Hisao 194

Trial of Three Officers

Mukai, Noda, and Tanaka 196

Tokyo War Crimes Trial 199

7 Sounds of Controversy 234

Start and Renewal of Controversy 235

Critical Review and Analysis of Revisionist Views 239

Critical Review and Analysis of Traditionalist Views 246

The Emergence of Centrist Views and the Balance Sheet of the Debate 251

Recent Chinese and Western Views 258

Nanking and the Holocaust: Historiographical Analysis 262

Summary of the Rape of Nanking Debate: Analogy with a Court of Law 270

Appendix A Japanese and Chinese Forces in Nanking 291

Appendix B Burial Statistics of Red Swastika Society in Nanking 295

Appendix C Burial Records of Ch'ung-shan-t'ang 299

Appendix D Civilian Losses Based on Smythe's Data 303.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-343) and index.

ISBN:

0275969045

OCLC:

42921407