Summary: The Rape Of Nanking

Teandra Richards
Professor Neddy D. McMills
English 101. 0814
October, 11, 2011
The Rape of Nanking Although Japan’s history and culture fuel its army’s brutality, china’s lack of awareness, preparedness and leadership contributed to Nanking’s overwhelming defeat. The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang is also referred to as the forgotten holocaust of World War 2 this is a story taken from three different perspectives.

Why after centuries of futile destruction, does man persist in waging war? In the non-fiction work-tron, by Iris Chang, the author chronicles the events of Nanking’s devastation in the winter of 1937-38. The Story will represent tragic tales from the view
(merriam-webster.com/dictionary) which leads researcher’s to the assumption that the Japanese are so far gone and brain washed; they are less humane than other cultures: “an implication I find both impossible and condescending” (I. Chang 55). The Japanese Army had cultural beliefs that were deeply rooted, unethical and inhumane, this is all they know and
One of the deadliest was the “Three-all” policy Loot all, kill all, burn all” (215). The Butchery involved 7 steps of trickery. The Japanese where actuarially shocked, looking how easy it was to deceive and use their deception on the Chinese people. The Japanese soldiers were puzzled that they had the Chinese people restrained to not over throwing, the Japanese with the little man power they had at one