Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing:

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESSISBN: 9780252033322

Diaries and Correspondence, 1937-38

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By Minnie Vautrin, Edited by Suping Lu
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''Through the harrowing stories of the victims, accounts of heroic confrontation with Japanese soldiers, and personal testimony, Minnie Vautrin's diaries provide a wealth of information on the Nanking Massacre. A close reading of her remarkable descriptions will help historians and students understand the tragic consequences of war from the vantage point of a civilian who worked helplessly to protect Chinese civilians from Japanese brutality.'' Christian Henriot, author of Prostitution and Sexuality in Shanghai: A Social History, 1849-1949 ''In what was undoubtedly a labour of love, Suping Lu has provided a moving account of Wilhelmina ''Minnie'' Vautrin, an American missionary and educator trapped in Nanjing during the Japanese occupation...It is undeniably a powerful account...as a researcher who uses many wartime diaries I found the book to have many points of interest...This book will immediately communicate the severity of the massacre to a general audience...the terrible psychological effects of the Japanese invasion on such a good-hearted person come across vividly, and are difficult to forget.'' Aaron William Moore, The China Quarterly, Sept 2009

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