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    The Rape of Nanking: The History and Legacy of the Notorious Massacre During the Second Sino-Japanese War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 83min
    Three days of plundering traditionally befell cities taken by storm, a fate usually avoided by those surrendering before the first attacking soldier penetrated beyond the outer walls. In Europe and areas influenced by Enlightenment thinkers, this practice faded rapidly after the Napoleonic Wars. In 1937, however, as the Imperial Army of Japan invaded China, this custom returned in a horrifying new form - the Rape of Nanking or the Nanking Massacre, a bloodbath lasting more than six weeks and possibly claiming more than a quarter of a million lives. Even the Japanese participating in the Nanking Massacre provided no rationale for their actions. They made no effort to explain it as a measure to terrorize other Chinese cities into surrender, or even to extract the location of hidden valuables. Instead, the rape appears in history as a psychopathic orgy of sadism for sadism's sake. Insatiably driven by hatred and, apparently, an unabashed relish for cruelty, the Japanese soldiery abandoned any semblance of restraint. Even Third Reich personnel in the city interceded in a sometimes futile effort to rescue victims from their tormentors. At the end of the city's long harrowing, the world knew clearly, if it did not before, that the Japanese of Tojo and Hirohito showed a very different spirit than the exquisitely genteel and chivalric men of the Russo-Japanese War of 1905. The fight against Imperial Japan represented not merely an effort to avoid being conquered, but for survival itself. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Colin Fluxman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/070266/bk_acx0_070266_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Making of the Rape of Nanking
    The Making of the Rape of Nanking ab 25.49 € als pdf eBook: History and Memory in Japan China and the United States. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond The Rape of Nanking , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 915min
    A moving and illuminating memoir about the life of world-famous author and historian Iris ChangIris Chang's best-selling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shock Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen. A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that Nazi officers based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame? Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris's home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris's legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter. The Woman Who Could Not Forget won 2012 Asian/Pacific American Librarians Association (APALA) Awards for Literature in Adult Non-Fiction category. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013885/bk_adbl_013885_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Das Historische Museum Himmlisches Königreich der Taiping in Nanking
    Das Historische Museum Himmlisches Königreich der Taiping in Nanking ab 9.99 € als Taschenbuch: Besuche im Herbst 2017 und 2018. 1. Auflage. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Völkerkunde,
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    Das Historische Museum Himmlisches Königreich der Taiping in Nanking
    Das Historische Museum Himmlisches Königreich der Taiping in Nanking ab 2.99 € als pdf eBook: Besuche im Herbst 2017 und 2018. Aus dem Bereich: eBooks, Belletristik, Erzählungen,
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    Tokio (eBook, ePUB)
    Ein unaussprechliches Geheimnis treibt die englische Studentin Grey nach Tokio: Hier hofft sie, den Schlüssel zu einer Tragödie zu finden, die sie seit Jahren verfolgt. Ein Filmausschnitt, der Gräueltaten japanischer Soldaten im chinesischen Nanking 1937 zeigt, soll die Lösung des Rätsels enthalten. Doch der Besitzer des Films, ein chinesischer Wissenschaftler, ist nur unter einer Bedingung bereit, ihr die Bilder zu zeigen: Grey soll ein geheimnisumwittertes Elixier aufspüren, das sich in den Händen des einflussreichsten und gefährlichsten Mannes von Tokio befindet. Grey kann nicht ahnen, dass die Geschichte dieses Elixiers eng mit ihrer eigenen Tragödie verknüpft ist - und dass sich eine blutige Spur von den Ereignissen in Nanking bis in die Gegenwart zieht ... Der neue Thriller von der Autorin des Bestsellers "Der Vogelmann": ein zutiefst verstörender Blick in die dunklen Seiten der menschlichen Seele.
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    Tokyo, Hörbuch, Digital, 365min
    Student Grey Hutchins comes to Tokyo seeking answers to what happened during the notorious Nanking Massacre in which, in one city, the Imperial Japanese Army killed up to 300,000 civilians. Only one man can help her, a survivor of the Massacre, and now a visiting professor at the prestigious university of Todai in Tokyo; a man who is rumoured to possess documentary evidence of Nanking. But first Grey must gain his trust. Increasingly desperate and alone, she accepts a job as a hostess at the "Some Like It Hot" club, an upmarket nightspot catering for Japanese businessmen and wealthy gangsters. One gangster dominates, an old man in a wheelchair guarded by a nurse with sharpened teeth, said to rely on a powerful elixir for his continued wealth and well-being. It is an elixir which other members of the club want for themselves, at any price. Language: English. Narrator: Bert Kwouk, Emily Woof. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/000126/bk_rhuk_000126_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Flowers of War , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 336min
    December 1937: The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose 13-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Run by Father Engelmann, an American priest who has been in China for many years, the church is supposedly neutral ground in the war between China and Japan. But it becomes clear the Japanese are not obeying international rules of engagement. As they pour through the streets of Nanking, raping and pillaging the civilian population, the girls are in increasing danger. And their safety is further compromised when prostitutes from the nearby brothel climb over the wall into the compound seeking refuge. Short, powerful, vivid, this beautiful novel transports the reader to 1930s China. Full of wonderful characters, from the austere priest to the irreverent prostitutes, it is a story about how war upsets all prejudices and how love can flourish amid death. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Samantha Quan. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rhuk/001780/bk_rhuk_001780_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Flowers of War
    1937: Während der Invasion von Nanking versucht Bestatter John Miller eine Gruppe junger Mädchen vor den Übergriffen japanischer Soldaten zu schützen. Doch seine Gegner geben nicht auf.
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    China Only Yesterday: 1850-1950: A Century of Change , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1064min
    A fascinating journey through 100 years of Chinese history, beginning with the historic Treaty of Nanking and ending with Mao Tse-tung's creation of the Chinese People's Republic, by the acclaimed New Yorker correspondent who lived in China from 1935 to 1941. For centuries China's code of behavior was incomprehensible to Westerners, whom the Chinese viewed as irredeemable barbarians. Presenting historical events with an immediacy that makes you feel as if you were there, Hahn takes listeners through isolationist China's difficult and often costly adaptations to the invasions of Western "foreign devils" - from the Treaty of Nanking in 1842, which gave the West access to five of China's eastern ports, to the British colonization of Hong Kong, the rise of the tea trade, the Opium Wars, the arrival of Christian missionaries, and the Boxer Rebellion. Hahn also illuminates the revolutionary movement led by Sun Yat-sen, the overthrow of the Ch'ing Dynasty, the escalating tensions between the Communist and Nationalist parties, and the Japanese invasion on the eve of World War II - which Hahn witnessed firsthand. The final chapters cover the civil war, which ended with Chairman Mao's formation of the People's Republic of China and Chiang Kai-shek's retreat to Taiwan. With an insider's knowledge of Chinese culture and politics, Hahn delivers a sharply observant audiobook that illuminates an unforgettable era in China's tumultuous past. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Emily Woo Zeller. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/023226/bk_adbl_023226_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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