The undaunted women of Nanking : the wartime diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang / edited, annotated, and translated by Hua-ling Hu, Zhang Lian-hong.

Author: Vautrin, Minnie, 1886-1941.

Imprint:Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2010.

Descriptionx, 238 p., [8] ps. of b&w plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Note:Biographical sketches -- Minnie Vautrin (1886-1941) -- Tsen Shiu-fang (1875-1969) -- A note on the two diaries -- Excerpts from the diaries, December 8, 1937, to March 1, 1938 -- Receiving refugees at Ginling College under intensified bombardment -- Japanese occupation of Nanking : soldiers, rampage, terror -- Observing holidays in time of horror and the refugees' "goddess of mercy" -- Registration and returning of American and European diplomats to Nanking -- Life and problems inside the Ginling camp -- Japanese demand to close refugee camps and Vautrin's defiance -- Slowly restoring law and order, but continuously searching for "hwa gu-niang" -- Aftermath -- Appendix: Reports by Minnie Vautrin on the rape of Nanking from her correspondence -- The first month : December 13, 1937-January 13, 1938 -- [Ginling College] as a refugee camp : January14-March 31, 1938.

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