Category: #10 Totalitarian Martyrs
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Christopher Jackson Totalitarian Martyrs The conflicts between Asian states may not be as popular as European or American ones but they are still just as bloody. Japan’s war occupation of North China is not an exception to this as the Japanese were fully capable of ruthlessness. As in all wars, there was a body count …
Totalitarian Martyrs
The Nanjing Massacre was a mass killing and rape of the citizens of Nanjing, China by Japanese soldiers during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The photo above is a memorial in Nanjing that pays tribute to all the victims of the massacre. What really stuck out to me in The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten …
The Rape of Nanking as a Case Study of Historiography
“Our perception of history derives from past events as transmitted via the written word, not from the events themselves” (Masaaki vii). The connection between history and historiography can be a trepidatious one. While the opinions of those involved in events first hand can yield valuable insight into the feelings of the time, they can also […]
The Rape of Nanking from 2 Different Viewpoints
It is interesting to read both accounts of what happened in Nanking, China during World War II. Growing up and attending various history classes during high school and college, you continuously learn about the Rape of Nanking and the Nanking Massacre. It has become common knowledge that this horrific event did actually happen. I had …
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Schrödinger’s Massacre
The above image shows Chinese and Korean protesters outside the Japanese Consulate, signs and chants voice their outrage, reverberating off nearby buildings and echoing through the past. But why would there be controversy over an event so far removed from the present? The main controversy that has existed over the Nanjing Massacre, or Rape of … Continue reading →
Nanjing Massacre: Fact or Fiction
The articles and video provided to us discussed the Japanese assault on Nanjing. During the late 1930’s, Japan started to invade China, they had set their sights on Nanjing. Nanjing was the capital of China until the government moved the capital more inland from the Japanese. When the Japanese reached Nanjing there appears to be … Continue reading “Nanjing Massacre: Fact or Fiction”
Mass Murder on a Monday Morning
On the Monday morning, December 13, 1937, the 6th, 16th, and 116th divisions of the Japanese Imperial Army entered the city of Nanjing. Later that afternoon two Japanese Imperial Navy fleets arrived in the Yangtze River. The shattered Chinese army … Continue reading →
The Nanking Massacre (?)
From 1931-1932, the Japanese Imperial army took over Manchuria, and in July of 1937, the Second Sino-Japanese War began. In December of this war, a battle occurred in Nanking between the Chinese and Japanese. Or was it a massacre of the Chinese by the Japanese? In her book, “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust […]
The Past is gone from those who Ignore it
From late 1937 to early 1938, a genocide occurred in Manchuria, China and is named the Rape of Nanjing. There exists enormous evidence to support this statement in the form of photographs, oral histories, public records, diary accounts, and more. Continue reading The Past is gone from those who Ignore it→
The Atrocity Japan Tried to Hide
Although the United States did not fully enter WWII until after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 the war had started earlier in Europe and Asia. The start of WWII began in Asia when Japan started to occupy Manchuria in 1931 (Chang, 3). Other parts of China started to fall to the […]
