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The Nanjing Massacre and Sino-Japanese Relations

Examining the Japanese 'Illusion' School

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  1. Zhaoqi Cheng

    1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

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  • Examines the claims and controversy surrounding the ‘Nanjing Massacre’ of 1937-1938

  • Weighs up the arguments and evidence of the Japanese 'Illusion School', which denies the truth of the Nanjing Massacre claims

  • Offers an independent and evidence driven perspective on the events of the 'Massacre'

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Table of contents (25 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Monograph

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Who Made Up the “Lies”—An Analysis on Japanese Annual of the Japan Association for Nanjing Studies

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 3-37

    3. A Study of the Bearing and Discipline of the Japanese Army Invading China—Taking the 10th Army as an Example

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 39-79

    4. Re-evaluation of Iwane Matsui’s War Guilt—Verifications of One of the Testimonies on the Nanjing Massacre Given by the Defendants at the Tokyo War Crimes Trials

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 81-114

    5. A Study of the Massacre Order for Japanese Troops

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 115-138

    6. Is the Nanjing Massacre a Fabrication Made by Tokyo Trial?

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 139-191

    7. Is The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe an “Unfounded Fabrication”?—An Examination of The Truth of Nanjing Incident: An Examination of John Rabe’s Diaries

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 193-224

    8. Re-discussion on “The 100-Man Killing Contest”

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 225-237

    9. Re-examination of Ogawa Sekijiro’s Testimony—Examination II of the Testimonies of the Defendants on Nanjing Atrocities in Tokyo Trial

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 239-266

    10. Ogawa Sekijiro and Diary of a Military Legal Affairs Officer

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 267-271

    11. The Study on Some Issues Concerning the Nanjing Massacre

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 273-295

    12. An Introduction to Japan’s Existing Historical Material on the Nanjing Massacre

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 297-372

  3. Essays

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 373-373
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    2. The “Legitimacy” That Cannot Be Self-justified

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 375-379

    3. Impudently Take a Mistranslation as “Rebuttal Evidence”

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 381-385

    4. How Can There Be “Not Expansion”

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 387-392

    5. The Truth of “Substantial Concessions”

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 393-396

    6. The Insincere “Peacefully Opening the City”

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 397-403

    7. Three Questions on the Burial

      • Zhaoqi Cheng
      Pages 405-412
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About this book

Based on extensive research on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, this book closely examines the claims and controversy surrounding the ‘Nanjing Massacre’, a period of murder in 1937-1938 committed by Japanese troops against the residents of Nanjing (Nanking), after the capture of the then capital of the Republic of China, during the Second Sino-Japanese War. Focusing on weighing up arguments denying Nanjing Massacre, this book considers the Japanese ‘Illusion’ school of thought which contests the truth of the Nanjing Massacre claims, including the death toll and the scale of the violence. The Nanjing Massacre remains a controversial issue in Sino-Japanese relations, despite the normalization of bilateral relations, and this book goes to great lengths to examine the events through comparative narratives, investigating different perspectives and contributings to the debate from the extensive research of the Tokyo Trial Research Centre at Shanghai, as well as volumes of Chinese and Japanese historical documents.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China

    Zhaoqi Cheng

About the author

Zhaoqi ​Cheng is the professor and director of Tokyo Trial Research Center, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. Chen is long engaged in the Tokyo Trial research and has published a number of monographs. Chen serves as the chief editor of the book series Collection of the Tokyo Trial Studies and the supervisor of the publishing project: A Collection of Court Exhibits of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East—Index and Appendix.

Zhaoqi Cheng is currently hosting a special project collecting, organizing and digitalizing trial documents of Japanese war criminals, which is part of the central-government-funded special studies on the Anti-Japanese War, and the Tokyo International Military Tribunal, a key project of Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He is also in charge of compiling and publishing of the bibliographical index of the Tokyo Trial as well as the Tokyo Trial Series, a key publication project of the 12th Five-Year-Plan. And Mr. Cheng is the author of several books including Existing Japanese Historical Documents on Nanjing Massacre, Essays on History from Qiyang Studio and A History of War Crimes Trials in Post 1945 Asia-Pacific.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Nanjing Massacre and Sino-Japanese Relations

  • Book Subtitle: Examining the Japanese 'Illusion' School

  • Authors: Zhaoqi Cheng

  • Translated by: Fangbin Yang

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7887-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7886-1Published: 18 October 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7889-2Published: 19 October 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7887-8Published: 17 October 2020

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 548

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Asian History, International Criminal Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict

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