Nanjing Requiem
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During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
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Chinese story submitted by Hsiao-Yun Hwang-Pang on July 25, 2011, 6:04pm People will learn how Japanese invade Chinese and killed so many innocent people.
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New York : Pantheon Books, 2011.
Year Published: 2011
Description: 303 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307379764
0307379760
SUBJECTS
Women missionaries -- Fiction.
Americans -- China -- Fiction.
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- Fiction.
Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
War stories.