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Author:

Vautrin, Minnie, 1886-1941.

Title:

Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing : diaries and correspondence, 1937-38 / Minnie Vautrin ; edited and with an introduction by Suping Lu.

Publisher:

University of Illinois Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xxx, 261 p., [10] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Vautrin, Minnie,--1886-1941--Diaries.
Vautrin, Minnie,--1886-1941--Correspondence.
Missionaries--China--Biography.
Missionaries--United States--Biography.
Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937.
Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China)

Other Authors:

Lu, Suping, 1955-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

War breaks out in Shanghai -- Plans for college's relocation -- Aerial bombing escalates -- Courage and persistence -- A spiral downturn at Shanghai front -- War gets closer to Nanjing -- Safety zone is established -- Brutality follows Japanese entry into the city -- Registration of refugees -- Refugees, poor refugees -- Miseries continue -- Refugees would rather starve than leave Ginling -- Violation of women still rampant -- Thousands of victim bodies remain unburied.

ISBN:

0252033329 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780252033322 (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007044082

Locations:

OLAX314 -- Reu Memorial Library (Dubuque)