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The 1937 – 1938 Nanjing Atrocities

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Authors:
  1. Suping Lu

    1. University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

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  • A comprehensive academic work to provide complete coverage of the Nanjing Massacre

  • Based on the original source materials collected from various national archives, national libraries, church historical society archives, and university libraries in China, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States

  • Provides in-depth and detailed analyses of various related issues, including controversies over the event and the 100-Man Killing Contest

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxix
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  2. Japanese Military Expansion

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 1-14

  3. Road to Nanjing

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 15-43

  4. Brutality Following the Fall of Nanjing: Large-Scale Massacres

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 45-85

  5. Small-Scale Mass Executions and Individual Killings

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 87-133

  6. Raping, Looting, and Burning

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 135-159

  7. Testimonies by Chinese Survivors and Witnesses

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 161-203

  8. Japanese Soldiers’ Accounts

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 205-245

  9. International Committee for Nanjing Safety Zone and Westerners in Nanjing

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 247-289

  10. Media Coverage in English, Chinese and Japanese

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 291-330

  11. American, British, and German Diplomatic Documents

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 331-364

  12. Disposing of Victim Bodies

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 365-411

  13. Post-War Military Tribunals

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 413-462

  14. Controversies over the Nanjing Massacre

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 463-527

  15. The 100-Man Killing Contest and Controversies

    • Suping Lu
    Pages 529-563

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 565-586
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About this book

This book presents a comprehensive overview of the Nanjing Massacre, together with an in-depth analysis of various aspects of the event and related issues. Drawing on original source materials collected from various national archives, national libraries, church historical society archives, and university libraries in China, Japan, Germany, United Kingdom and the United States, it represents the first English-language academic attempt to analyze the Nanjing Massacre in such detail and scope.
The book examines massacres and other killings, in addition to other war crimes, such as rape, looting, and burning. These atrocities are then explored further via a historical analysis of Chinese survivors’ testimony, Japanese soldiers’ diaries, Westerners’ eyewitness accounts, the news coverage from American and British correspondents, and American, British and German diplomatic dispatches.  Further, the book explores issues such as the role and function of the International Committee for Nanking Safety Zone, burial records of massacre victims, post-war military tribunals, controversies over the Nanjing Massacre, and the 100-Man Killing Contest.


This book is intended for all researchers, scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, and members of the general public who are interested in Second World War issues, Sino-Japanese conflicts, Sino-Japan relations, war crimes, atrocity and holocaust studies, military tribunals for war crimes, Japanese atrocities in China, and the Nanjing Massacre.



Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, USA

    Suping Lu

About the author

​Suping Lu is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals (2004), and editor of Terror in Minnie Vautrin’s Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 (2008), A Mission under Duress: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats (2010), and A Dark Page in History: The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Recorded in British Diplomatic Dispatches, Admiralty Documents, and U.S. Naval Intelligence Reports (2012 & 2019). 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The 1937 – 1938 Nanjing Atrocities

  • Authors: Suping Lu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9656-4

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9655-7Published: 02 January 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-9658-8Published: 26 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-9656-4Published: 06 December 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXIX, 586

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, War Crimes, History of China

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