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American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking 2000

By Hua-Ling Hu

  • Missionaries, Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937, Ginling College (Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China), Biography

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.

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