TY - CHAP
T1 - Manipulating historical tensions in East Asian popular culture
AU - Lo, Kwai Cheung
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2012 Nissim Otmazgin and Eyal Ben-Ari for selection and editorial matter.
PY - 2011/10/14
Y1 - 2011/10/14
N2 - Japan invaded Northern China in June 1937, following the so-called Marco Polo Bridge Incident (or the Lugouqia Incident). The Japanese Imperial Army conquered about a third of the Republic of China within six months, including Beijing and Shanghai, and arrived at the then-capital Nanjing (or Nanking) in December 1937. The Imperial Army had no difficulty in capturing the city since most of Chiang Kai-Shek’s soldiers had already fled. The army immediately began to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians. The killings continued for a period of weeks. The number of Chinese murdered remains a controversy to this day: the Chinese allege that more than 300, 000 people were killed and more than 20, 000 women were raped, while some Japanese historians challenge those figures and rightist groups simply deny that the massacre even happened.
AB - Japan invaded Northern China in June 1937, following the so-called Marco Polo Bridge Incident (or the Lugouqia Incident). The Japanese Imperial Army conquered about a third of the Republic of China within six months, including Beijing and Shanghai, and arrived at the then-capital Nanjing (or Nanking) in December 1937. The Imperial Army had no difficulty in capturing the city since most of Chiang Kai-Shek’s soldiers had already fled. The army immediately began to slaughter hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians. The killings continued for a period of weeks. The number of Chinese murdered remains a controversy to this day: the Chinese allege that more than 300, 000 people were killed and more than 20, 000 women were raped, while some Japanese historians challenge those figures and rightist groups simply deny that the massacre even happened.
UR - https://www.routledge.com/Popular-Culture-and-the-State-in-East-and-Southeast-Asia/Otmazgin-Ben-Ari/p/book/9780415679695
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85123143665&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9780203801536-19
DO - 10.4324/9780203801536-19
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9780415679695
SN - 9781138017108
T3 - Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations
SP - 177
EP - 190
BT - Popular Culture and the State in East and Southeast Asia
A2 - Otmazgin, Nissim
A2 - Ben-Ari, Eyal
PB - Routledge
ER -
