Iris Chang Reassessed: A Polemical Introduction the Second Edition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface to the Second Edition vii
4. Preface to the First Edition ix
5. Wade-Giles to Pinyin Conversion Table xii
6. Maps xvi
7. Iris Chang Reassessed: A Polemical Introduction the Second Edition xxi
8. For two pioneers in critical Nanking historical scholarship: Hora Tomio (1906–2000) and Fujiwara Akira (1922–2003)
9. Chapter 1. The Messiness of Historical Reality 1
10. Chapter 2. The Nanking Atrocity: An Interpretive Overview 29
11. Section One: War Crimes and Doubts
12. Chapter 3. Massacres outside Nanking City 55
13. Chapter 4. Massacres near Mufushan 70
14. Chapter 5. Part of the Numbers Issue: Demography and Civilian Victims 86
15. Chapter 6. The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest Debate, 1971–75 115
16. Chapter 7. Radhabinod Pal on the Rape of Nanking: The Tokyo Judgment and the Guilt of History 149
17. Section Two: Agressors and Collaborators
18. Chapter 8. Letters from a Reserve Officer Conscripted to Nanking 179
19. Chapter 9. Chinese Collaboration in Nanking 196
20. Chapter 10. Westerners in Occupied Nanking: December 1937 to February 1938 227
21. Chapter 11. Wartime Accounts of the Nanking Atrocity 248
22. Section Three: Another Denied Holocaust?
23. Chapter 12. The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese Historical Memory 265
24. Chapter 13. A Tale of Two Atrocities: Critical Appraisal of American Historiography 285
25. Chapter 14. Higashinakano Osamichi: The Last Word in Denial 304
26. Chapter 15. Nanking: Denial and Atonement in Contemporary Japan 330
27. Postscript
28. Chapter 16. Leftover Problems 355
29. Appendix 394
30. Bibliography 399
31. Notes on Contributors 421
32. Index 423