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Record Nr.

UNINA9910586589603321

Autore

Lu Suping

Titolo

Japanese atrocities in Nanjing : the Nanjing Massacre and post-massacre social conditions recorded in German diplomatic documents / / Suping Lu ; edited and translated with an introduction by Suping Lu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9789811689383

9789811689376

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 446 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Collana

Gale eBooks

Disciplina

951.042

Soggetti

Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 - History

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

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 Atrocities China Nanjing Shi

Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) History 20th century Sources

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Preface -- Content -- About the Author -- Introduction -- Maps -- 1 Japanese Troops Reached Nanjing -- 2 Japanese Atrocities -- 3 Under the Reign of Terror -- 4 Reports by Paul Hans Hermann Scharffenberg -- 5 Conditions in Nanjing -- 6 Property Violation against German and Other Nationals -- 7 Dispatches by Alfred Mathias Peter Hürter -- Appendix I -- Appendix II -- Appendix III -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents a collection of annotated English translations of German diplomatic documents--including telegrams, dispatches, and reports--sent to the Foreign Office in Berlin and the German Ambassador in Hankou, China, by German diplomatic officials in Nanjing, and detailing Japanese atrocities and the conditions in and around Nanjing during the early months of 1938.