Reddit reviews The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

The book is : Rape of Nanjing by Iris Chang

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I can think of a few

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• Niall Ferguson's "The Ascent of Money" - How money rules the world - here's how.
  
  
• Jarred Diamond's "Guns, Germs and Steel" - his thesis might not be entirely correct - but it's a VERY fair look at how our history was influenced by these factors.
  
  
• Bruce Bueno De Mesquita's - "The Predictioneer's Game" - - How quantitative models are SCARILY accurate
  
  
• Emanuel Derman's "Models Behaving Badly" - And how sometimes quantitative models are totally wrong.
  
  
• Paul Roberts - "The End of Oil" - Probably the most serious and balanced read on what could be one of the most important economic problems facing our modern civilization in the next 20 years.
  
  
• Frank & Cook's "Winner Take All Society" - and why things are a problem.
  
  
• Richard Florida's "The Great Reset" - Florida is a pretty good author all around - far better than some others in the pitch.
  
  
• James Bamford's amazing "Body of Secrets" - Not all our enemies are external, and sometimes our allies turn out to actually be thuggish & deadly enemies.
  
  
• Iris Chang's "The Rape of Nanking" - Nobody here is exactly as they appear.
  
  
• Carl Sagan's "A Demon Haunted World"
  
  
• Robin Marantz Henig's "A Monk in the Garden" - Yeah - the priest that proved Darwin's theory, in 1865.....oh yeah and he invented statistics along the way.
  
  
• Brian Sykes' "The seven Daughters of Eve"
  
  
• Douglas Hofstadter's "Metamagical Themas" - Every page is practically amazing - a collection of amazing old articles from Dr. H's work
  
  
• Kristina Borjesson's edit of "Into the Buzzsaw" - the hard truth about a couple of things in the US media
  
  
• Richard Dawkins' "Climbing Mount Improbable" - a great work about such an amazing idea.
  
  
• Kim Sterelny's "Dawkins vs. Gould" - this is a REAL debate about evolution!
  

New Books:
on Contemporary China
Chinnovation
Reads somewhat similar to Silicon Valley success stories: huge ideas that are changing the world, with a Chinese accent.

History:
The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang

This is a very important book to understand the Sino-Japanese relationship. Even when some question the historic facts, esp numbers, it is a strong reflection to the mentality the Chinese people go through ever since.
If you are too lazy to read through, there is one edition with mostly (disturbing) photos.
The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable History in Photographs

A Nazi involved in saving refugees in Nanking who had the habit of keeping a diary.The Diaries of John Rabe
This is one of the sources of Chang's book, written by a westerner.
Chang committed suicide and now she has a memoir
The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang
(This is the new book that really got me carried away to list related literature)

I wish I could be more helpful and list more books on other aspects of China. Yet it is so sad to think about heavy history so I have to refrain from writing more. My apologies.

Showing people (mostly in the West because they are never taught it in school) the Japanese atrocities of the Chinese in WW2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanking_Massacre

Recommended reading, Rape of Nanking.
http://www.amazon.com/Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0140277447/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1293380940&sr=8-1

I'm glad to see someone was handling the troll. It's a pretty rich argument though, America cuts off oil supplies to the Empire of Japan due to their wars of aggression in the Pacific, and it's the U.S.'s fault that Japan counter-strikes in a coward attack?

On the topic of learning though, The Rape of Nanking is a horrifying description of some of the events of the Nanking Massacre perpetuated by the Imperial Japanese Army in China. The author of the book would later commit suicide.

The Nanking Massacre started in 1937, years before the U.S. supposed forced the Empire of Japan to attack...

Try reading the Rape of Nanking sometime. Firecrackers in women's vaginas post-rape, forcing fathers to rape daughters, decapitation contests, it's all here

This is a good book about the subject: The Rape of Nanking. Covers everything you are asking about.

To get an idea of how big of a raw nerve this book struck try reading some of the 1-star reviews. A mishmash of insane people, Japanese right wing revisionists and even a few people apparently posing as Chinese. Side note: the author committed suicide about 7 years after this was published.