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Mission under Duress

The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats

Herausgeber: Lu, Suping

Beschreibung

This book explores the massacre that occurred after the Japanese captured the Chinese capital of Nanjing in December 1937. In January 1938, three American diplomats arrived in Nanjing and sent numerous atrocity reports to the U.S. and U.S. diplomatic posts, extensively documenting the situation and the American diplomatic role.

Autor

Suping Lu was born and raised in China. Lu graduated from Nanjing Teachers University before he came to the United States to continue his education at the Ohio University and the University of South Carolina. He is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals (2004), and the editor of Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38 (2008).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University Press of America
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 792g
• ISBN-13: 9780761851493
• ISBN-10: 0761851496
• Artikelnr.: 31082019