Concordia Library: World War II: Rape of Nanking

8th grade Curriculum Connection

The Rape of Nanjing subject is included in this section because 8th grade teachers guide their students in the study of the issues related to the Nanjing Massacre.

So while Germany was busy amassing its military might in Europe, the Japanese had political designs in China.

Then students and teachers journey to Nanjing to visit the Memorial Hall of the Nanjing Massacre.

Occupation of Nanking 1937

Japanese troops march through one of Nanking's city gates, November 1937.

Occupation Of Nanking 1937. Photograph. Encyclopædia Britannica Image Quest. Web. 25 Apr 2012.

Marco Polo Bridge Incident: July 7, 1937

Historians consider the Marco Polo Bridge Incident as a marker for the second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945).

Other related search terms:

Incident of July 7
Battle of Lugou Bridge
Lugou Bridge Incident
July 7 Lugou Bridge Incident

Marco Polo Bridge Incident
Japanese Attack on China 1937
By Vincent Ferraro, The Ruth C. Lawson Professor of International Politics, Mount Holyoke College
Brief Notes on The Chinese Communists' Role in the Spread of the Marco Polo Bridge Incident into a Full-Scale War
Accessible through JSTOR database
Marco Polo Bridge -current view
Virtual Tour
Marco Polo Bridge aka Lugouqiao
China Internet Information Center

Web Resources

Links to

Author Iris Chang
Missionary Minnie Vautrin
German businessman/Nazi Party member John Rabe
Rape of Nanking

'Rape of Nanking' Author Iris Chang Dies
Washington Post
Scarred by history: The Rape of Nanjing
BBC
The Nanking Massacre Project: A Digital Archive of Documents & Photographs from American Missionaries Who Witnessed the Rape of Nanking
From the Special Collections of the Yale Divinity School Library
Shelter Under the Swastika: The John Rabe Story
From NPR: Read and/or listen.
more...less...
John Rabe was aka "The Good Nazi"; "The Good Man of Nanking"; "The Living Buddha of Nanking."
The Nanking Massacre: Fact Versus Fiction: A Historian's Quest for the Truth
Japanese professor gives view...by Higashinakano Shudo, Professor of Intellectual History, Asia University, Tokyo

Books on Nanking Massacre

The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
Call Number: 951.04 CHA
ISBN: 0140277447
Publication Date: 1998
Details the massacre that took place in December 1937 when the Japanese army overthrew the ancient city of Nanking, China, and raped, tortured, and murdered over 300,000 civilians; examining the atrocity from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers, the Chinese civilians, and the Europeans and Americans who created a safety zone for survivors.
Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing by Minnie Vautrin
Call Number: 266 VAU
ISBN: 0252033329
Publication Date: 2008
Presents excerpts from the diaries and correspondence of Minnie Vautrin, an Illinois farmgirl teaching in Nanjing, China, at the time of the Japanese invasion in December 1937, telling the story of how she turned her school into a sanctuary for ten thousand women and girls, and providing insights into how they survived the violence which has since become known as the Rape of Nanjing.
The Good Man of Nanking by John Rabe; Erwin Wickert (Editor); John E. Woods (Translator)
Call Number: B RAB
ISBN: 037540211X
Publication Date: 1998
Journal entries written by John Rabe help chronicle the experiences he had while he was helping to save thousands of Chinese men and women from the torture the Japanese were inflicting on them.
Berkshire encyclopedia of China : modern and historic views of the world's newest and oldest global power by senior editor, Mary Bagg
Call Number: R 951 BER v. 1-5
ISBN: 9780977015948
Publication Date: 2009
Contains eight hundred alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on notable events, concepts, and people in the history of China, and includes sidebars, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.