The Australian Legation in Nanking

From July 1941 until October 1949, the Commonwealth of Australia maintained two diplomatic legations in the Republic of China. Frederic Eggleston, then one of Australia’s leading international relations theorists and an advocate who supported closer ties with Asia, was Minister of the first legation, located in the wartime capital of Chungking, until he was recalled in March 1944, and posted thereafter to represent Australia in Washington.… Read

The Republic

 
  • Tombs and Palaces
  • A Capital Renewed
  • The Nanking Decade
  • A City Murdered
  • The Long Farewell
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    A City Murdered

  • Nanking’s ‘Government of Traitors’, 1940-1945
  • The Nanking Atrocity and Chinese Historical Memory
  • Yuan Tengfei on the Nanking Massacre
  • First-hand Account
  • A Sociological Survey of Nanking After the Massacre
  • From Tenderness to Savagery in Seconds
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    The Nanking Decade

  • The Analects of Nanking
  • Nanking: the capital, symbol of the new life of China
  • Locating the Nanjing Decade in the History of Women’s Movements and Networks
  • Zhu Ziqing on Nanking
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    A Capital Renewed

  • Nanking Revarnished
  • The Great Plan for Nanking
  • Planning a New Nanking
  • Nanking Eight Years After
  • A Glimpse of the New Capital
  • The New Buildings of Nanking
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