The_Rape_Of_Nanking

The Rape Of Nanking The Second Holocaust If the phrase “crimes against humanity” was coined exclusively to describe the atrocities committed against the innocent Chinese trapped in wartime Nanking, both Asians and Westerners, living in present times, should not be surprised. Although the incident in Nanking, China, did not see a considerable amount of analysis and coverage after World War II as compared to the Nazi-induced Holocaust, the victims’ experiences and suffering were as real, as tangible, and as intense. The Rape of Nanking, which was written by Iris Chang, chronicles the events that occurred roughly 70 years ago. Three different viewpoints regarding the same situation are displayed: the Chinese view, the Japanese view, and the foreigners’ view. From the Chinese perspective, Japanese soldiers were nothing but demons sent from hell to torture innocent Chinese. During the Japanese military expansion into China, which spanned from the year 1937 to 1945, incidents of rape, torture, and mass massacres were widespread. The horrors in Nanking became even more personal as the readers were able to see through the eyes of Tang, a Chinese man who miraculously survived. He stood helpless as “a competition began among the soldiers—a competition to determine who chinese, japanese, nanking, soldiers, view, rape, innocent, important, during, china, willing, torture, same, personal, number, military, massacres, mass, killing, incident, holocaust, hell, held, future, foreigners’, even, competition, against, after, 85, years