The Nanjing Massacre in History and Historiography

The Rape of Nanjing was one of the worst atrocities committed during World War II.

On December 13, 1937, the Japanese army captured the city of Nanjing, then the capital of wartime China.

According to the International Military Tribunal, during the ensuing massacre 20,000 Chinese men of military age were killed and approximately 20,000 cases of rape occurred; in all, the total number of people killed in and around the city of Nanjing was about 200,000.

This collection of essays considers the post-World War II treatment in China of the Nanjing Massacre and Japan.

The book examines how the issue has developed as a political and diplomatic controversy in the five decades since World War II.