The undaunted women of Nanking : the wartime diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang / edited and translated by Hua-ling Hu, Zhang Lian-hong.
By: Vautrin, Minnie.
Contributor(s): Tsen, Shui-fang | Hu, Hualing [Editor] | Zhang, Lian-hong [Editor].
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TextPublisher: Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, 2010.Description: x, 238 p., [14] p. of plates ill., maps 24 cm.ISBN: 9780809329632; 0809329638.Subject(s): Vautrin, Minnie 1886-1941 -- Diaries | Tsen, Shui-fang 1875-1969 -- Diaries | Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Personal narratives | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) | Women missionaries -- China -- Diaries | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Personal narratives | Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Atrocities | Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- Biography | Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng, China) -- History, Military -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 951.042 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes translation from Chinese.
Biographical sketches : Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shiu-Fang -- A note on the two diaries -- Juxtaposition--Excerpts from the two diaries, December 8, 1937, to March 1, 1938 -- Receiving refugees at Ginling College under intensifying bombardment -- Japanese occupation of Nanking--soldiers' rampage, residents' terror -- Observing holidays in a time of horror and the refugees' "goddess of mercy" -- Registration of women and the return of American and European diplomats -- Life and problems inside the Ginling camp -- The Japanese demand to close refugee camps and Vautrin's defiance -- Slowly restoring law and order, but soldiers keep searching for "Hwa Gu-Niang" -- Aftermath -- Appendix: Reports by Minnie Vautrin on the rape of Nanking from her correspondence -- A review of the first month: December 13, 1937-January 13, 1938 -- As a refugee camp : January 14-March 31, 1938.
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