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A 3 page analysis of Iris Chang’s “The Rape of
Nanking.” Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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3 pages (~225 words per page)
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the mass media...become a bestseller...and created a great deal of controversy along the way" (Kelly, 2003). As such it obviously stands a book which is complex and perhaps emotional for
it stirs a great deal of emotion in the readers. It is a work that, for the most part, strives to ensure that the events known as the rape of
Nanking not be forgotten. The following paper examines the work, discussing its purpose and its strengths and weaknesses. The Rape of Nanking The primary focus of Changs work
seems to be to bring attention to a horrid event that most people have quickly forgotten because of WWII. As one author notes, "While the Rape of Nanking represents one
of the worst instances of mass extermination in the annals of world history it is also one of the most obscure. In the United States, only a scant few World
War II textbooks mention the Nanking slaughter, and almost none of the definitive World War II histories include the episode" It was an event that slaughtered numerous people and "The
Japanese, in addition to editing any reference to the massacre out of their school curriculum, have aggressively campaigned to prevent the Nanking atrocities from becoming common knowledge. In her courageous
and important book, Iris Chang both chronicles the massacre of this once proud, imperial capital city, and exposes the historical amnesia that she astutely characterizes as a second rape" (The
Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang, 2003). Her thesis is essentially that if we forget this event we are doomed to repeat it. Unfortunately, according to a great deal of
material out there, it seems that Changs work has many untruths, or historical mistakes. For example, according to Chang, "More than 260,000 noncombatants died, ...well over 350,000...a few statistics must
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