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Nanking 1937: Memory and Healing
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Comments/Reviews
Description: In recent years the international community has begun to scrutinize and, in many cases, condemn the atrocities that took place in Nanking in 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.
By treating the Nanking Massacre from a variety of perspectives, and by taking the position that all human atrocities have common features, this work reaches beyond aggressors and victims, admission and vindication, in search of solutions leading toward a more peaceful and harmonious international community.
Selected Contents:
Foreword by Perry Link
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One. Nanking in a Global Context
1. The Nanking Massacre as a Historical Symbol, Ian Buruma
2. Redressing Grievances: Assessing the Nanking Massacre, Richard Falk
Part Two. Revisiting Nanking: Views From China And Japan
3. Causes of the Nanking Massacre, Sun Zhaiwei
4. The Nanking Massacre Reassessed: A Study of the Sino-Japanese Controversy over the Factual Number of Massacred Victims, Lee En-Han
5. Remembering the Nanking Massacre, Kasahara Tokushi
6. The Overall Picture of the "Nanking Massacre", Higashinakano Shudo
Part Three. Remembering Nanking
7. Reporting the "Fall of Nankin " and the Suppression of a Japanese Literary "Memory" of the Nature of a War, Haruko Taya Cook
8. Refighting the Nanking Massacre: The Continuing Struggle over Memory, Takashi Yoshida
Part Four. Healing the Wounds
9. The "Black Milk" of Human Consciousness: Thinking About the Nanking Massacre in Light of Jewish Memory, Vera Schwarcz
10. The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, War Responsibility, and Postwar Responsibility, Onuma Yasuaki
11. Toward a Common Historical Understanding: The Nanking Massacre as a Challenge of Transnational History, Daqing Yang
Contributors and Advisers
Index
Review(s): The volume explores the rich intersections between memory and identity, and in particular the central role adversity, disaster or humiliation plays in shaping narratives of collective identity. The divergent tone and focus of [this] pioneering volume illustrates how the gap between Japanese and Chinese positions remains formidable and likely insurmountable. Any scholar or student serious about exploring the significance of Nanjing 1937-38 should have [this] at the top of their reading list. Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies
Debate over the 1937 Nanking Massacre (Rape of Nanking) reaches a new level of sophistication with these valuable essays. ... this book makes a useful reference source. Recommended for upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers or faculty. Choice
...The range and contrast of views make this an excellant choice for a college classroom. The China Review
...All the contributions,are readable and useful for students and experts alike. Given the renewed interest in this area, the many voices in Nanking 1937 are a welcome addition to a field in which rigid partisanship has reigned for far too long. History:Reviews of New Books
...this collection edited by Li, Sabella, and Liu is to be welcomed as a necessary reminder of the reality of a massacre which cost the lives, often under appalling circumstances, of around 300,000 Chinese... China Perspectives
Nanking 1937 is, in short, a rich collection of perspectives on an important event in the history of the Asia-Pacific War, and has ramifications for future Japan-China relations. Equally important, it is a compendium of insights into to why aggressors commit war crimes, and suggestions for preventing their recurrence. The China Journal No. 51
    
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