American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking: The Courage of Minnie Vautrin - Softcover

Hu, Hua-Ling

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809323869 ISBN 13: 9780809323869

Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press, 2000

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Book by Hu Hualing

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Hua-ling Hu has created a powerful, definitive biography of Minnle Vautrin, one of the greatest heroes of World War II. Meticulously researched and poignantly written, American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking describes how a courageous missionary defied the Japanese army to save thousands of Chinese lives-at the eventual cost of her own.-Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking ""Vautrin, a Midwestern farm girl called to missionary service, devoted her life to the education of Chinese women at Ginling College.... In the cauldron of horror that Nanking became, Vautrin, a tower of moral strength, turned Ginling into a sanctuary for 10,000 women and girls, who honored her as their Goddess of Mercy. Hu tells Vautrin's inspirational story in spare but powerful prose.""-Library Journal

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The Japanese army's brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as ""the rape of Nanking"". As they slaughtered an estimated 300,000 people, the invading soldiers raped more than 20,000 women - some estimates run as high as 80,000. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected the lives of 10,000 Chinese women and children - at the eventual cost of her own - and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.

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• Verlag: Southern Illinois University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0809323869
• ISBN 13: 9780809323869
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 216