Internet Guide for China Studies Newsletter http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ignew.htm ---------------------------------------------------- 06 Oct 1998 New in IGCS - History The Nanking Atrocities: Fact and Fable Ed.: HATA Ikuhiko, Japan Echo Vol. 25, No. 4, August 1998) URL: http://www.japanecho.co.jp/docs/html/250413.html Language: English Description: Self description: "Iris Chang has created a sensation in the United States with her book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Chang estimates that 260,000-350,000 people were killied in the atrocities after the city's fall in 1937. Many Japanese scholars accept similar figures. But the numerical count has been inflated by faulty methodology; a count of 40,000-60,000 seems more reasonable. Chang's book is also flawed by its use of photographs that have been misleadingly cropped or totally miscaptioned. Similar trickery with wartime photos is unfortunately widespread in Japan also." - regards - Hanno Lecher INTERNET GUIDE FOR CHINA STUDIES -- general editor http://sun.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/igcs/ _______________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to: [log in to unmask] containing the following message: SIGNOFF IGCS-L Please send any comments to: [log in to unmask]