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 of the Japanese protected ten thousand Chinese women and children and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809323869
• ISBN13: 9780809323869
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"