Nanjing requiem / Ha Jin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Jin, Ha, 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Women missionaries--Fiction.
• Women missionaries.
• Americans--China--Fiction.
• Americans.
• China.
• Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945--China--Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng)--Fiction.
• Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937--Fiction.
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in women--Fiction.
• Self-actualization (Psychology) in women.

Genre:

• Fiction.
• Historical fiction.
• War stories.

Physical Description:

303 pages : map ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Title on jacket: Nanjing requiem : a novel

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]

Summary:

During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.

Notes:

• Map on lining papers.
• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

• 9780307379764
• 0307379760

OCLC:

683247720