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

by Hua-Ling Hu

Book Overview

The Japanese army's brutal four-month 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 three hundred thousand people, the invading soldiers raped more than twenty thousand women--some estimates run as high as eighty thousand. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323036
• ISBN13: 9780809323036
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.8"