Download or read book The Rape of Nanking written by Zhang Sheng and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Massacre of Nanking took place in 1937, during the War of the Japanese Invasion of China. 75 years after the event, we are finally able to analyze and study what happened in Nanking on three levels: as an historical event, as a legal case, and as an object in the Chinese people's collective consciousness.