Category: #10 Totalitarian Martyrs
To Kill Twice
“For the survivor who chooses to testify, it is clear: his duty is to bear witness for the dead and for the living. He has no right to deprive future generations of a past that belongs to our collective memory. … Continue reading →
Nanking: The Truth Comes Out
Initially to start off the readings and information for this week, I decided to go on and watch the video that was added. My initial reaction to the topic of this week was a little overwhelming, due to the nature of evidence presented in the video. Upon further analysis of the readings, the content doesContinue reading “Nanking: The Truth Comes Out”
Nanking: Fact or Fiction?
DISCLAMER: The picture attached to the bottom could be seen as inappropriate and disturbing, if you do not wish to view it do not scroll passed the third paragraph. World War Two had its fair share of human rights violations and atrocities carried out on all sides in the name of their nations. Many pale …
The Erasure of the Nanking Massacre
The Nanking Massacre was a horrible tragedy that killed 100s of thousands of Chinese civilians in 1937. The Japanese military stormed Nanking and looted, raped, and killed for months on end. In Iris Chang’s book The Rape of Nanking – The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, she talks about the massacre extensively. Who what when where, …
The Rape of Nanking
From 1937-1938 one of the most brutal atrocities in human history occurred now known as the Rape of Nanking. It involved the massacre of 100,000-600,000 people, resulting from Japanese violence (both physical and sexual) toward Chinese people in Nanking. The … Continue reading →
DISPUTES OF NANKING
Painting by Hung Liu, 2003 This image above is a painting by Hung Liu and it depicts a young girl surrounded by destruction and death. The colors used in this painting are culturally considered colors of devastation and death as well as ghosts. Hung Liu uses these artistic elements to represent the darkness and desolation …
The Legacy of Nanking: Differing Accounts of Brutality
The Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum is a present-day tourist destination in southern Tokyo. This Art Deco style building was completed in 1933 and was originally the home of Prince Yasuhiko Asaka, who commissioned its construction after developing a taste for that particular architectural style during his travels with his wife in France and the …
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When The Unimaginable Happens
Human evil has taken many forms throughout history, what is not surprising is the denial that follows suit. It is when the unimaginable happens that we are faced with the ugliness face on, for certain events it harder for political entities to accept the actions and to repent for their crimes. This weeks readings examine …
Erased History of WWII: The Nanjing Massacre
The fact that World War Two was a brutal, costly, total war campaign is well-known to even some of the youngest historians still in grade schools across the United States and aboard, with topics from the European, North African, and Pacific theaters covered in units, semester- and year-long classes. What is much more rarely discussed, […]
#10 The Nanking Massacre
The image above shows an elderly woman who survived the Nanking Massacre after her entire family was murdered. Scenes like this were common across the city of Nanking after the 1937 attack that claimed hundreds of thousands of Chinese lives. The Nanking Massacre is one of the worst displays of cruelty in history, but … Continue reading →
