Description: Mission Under Duress : The Nanjing Massacre and Post-massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats, Paperback by Lu, Suping (EDT), ISBN 076185150X, ISBN-13 9780761851509, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Immediately after capturing the Chinese capital, Nanjing, on December 13, 1937, Japanese soldiers committed atrocities such as mass executions, rampant rapes, arson, and looting in and around the city. The carnage went on for weeks. On January 6, 1938, after the worst of the massacre atrocities was over, three American diplomats arrived in Nanjing. Upon their arrival, Third Secretary John Moore Allison, Vice Consul James Espy, and Code Clerk Archibald Alexander McFardyen, Jr. cabled dispatches about the atrocities and other conditions in the city to the Department of State and other . diplomatic posts in China. Often, they dispatched several reports within a day. These atrocity reports, which were largely based on interviews with American missionaries and their own investigations, gave detailed descriptions of Japanese atrocities, property damage, social conditions, relief efforts, diplomatic wrestling, and many other aspects of life in the city during and after the massacre period. The value of these diplomatic dispatches and reports, which were retrieved from the national archives, rests on that they extensively document the American diplomats' role, their observations and attitude toward the situation there, their efforts to help the Chinese and protect the Americans, and their struggles with the Japanese. Suping Lu was born and raised in China. Lu graduated from Nanjing Teachers University before he came to the United States to continue his education at the Ohio University and the University of South Carolina. He is a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the author of They Were in Nanjing: The Nanjing Massacre Witnessed by American and British Nationals (2004), and the editor of Terror in Minnie Vautrin's Nanjing: Diaries and Correspondence. 1937-38 (2008).
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Book Title: Mission under Duress : The Nanjing Massacre and Post-Massacre Social Conditions Documented by American Diplomats
Number of Pages: 394 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of America, Incorporated
Publication Year: 2010
Topic: Asia / Japan, Peace, General, World, International Relations / Diplomacy
Item Height: 1 in
Genre: Political Science, History
Item Weight: 21.5 Oz
Author: Suping Lu
Item Length: 9.3 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback