The Tunnel

In 1969, the Taiwanese writer Ch’en Jo-hsi (陳若曦, b.1938) moved to Nanking with her family where she took up a teaching position at Hohai University 河海大學. She later wrote a number of short stories set in the Nanjing of the Cultural Revolution era.… Read

A Punishing Regime

Upon receiving news that the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) led by the Communist Party had captured Nanking, seat of the Nationalist Party government of the Republic of China, Mao Zedong wrote a poem in celebration.… Read

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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