Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-Fang

by Zhang Lian-hong, Hua-Ling Hu, Zhang Lian-hong

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One of the Chinese American Librarians Association's Ten Best Books of 2010

During the infamous "Rape of Nanking," a brutal military occupation of Nanking, China, that began on December 13, 1937, it is estimated that Japanese soldiers killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese and raped between 20,000 and 80,000 women. To shelter civilian refugees, a group of Westerners established a Nanking Safety Zone. Among these humanitarians was Minnie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809337460
• ISBN13: 9780809337460
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"