Undaunted Women of Nanking: The Wartime Diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang

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CONTENTS  List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Biographical Sketches: Minnie Vautrin and Tsen Shui-fang 5 A Note on the Two Diaries 14 JUXTAPOSITION—EXCERPTS FROM THE TWO DIARIES, DECEMBER 8, 1937, TO MARCH 1, 1938 1. Receiving Refugees at Ginling College under Intensifying Bombardment 23 2. Japanese Occupation of Nanking—Soldiers’ Rampage, Residents’ Terror 35 3. Observing Holidays in a Time of Horror and the Refugees’ “Goddess of Mercy” 63 4. Registration of Women and the Return of American and European Diplomats 80 5. Life and Problems inside the Ginling Camp 98 6. The Japanese Demand to Close Refugee Camps and Vautrin’s Defiance 121 7. Slowly Restoring Law and Order but Soldiers Keep Searching for HWA GU-NIANG 141 Aftermath 166 v +X)URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 vi Appendix: Reports by Minnie Vautrin on the Rape of Nanking from Her Correspondence A Review of the First Month: December 13, 1937–January 13, 1938 173 As a Refugee Camp: January 14–March 31, 1938 188 Notes 201 Selected Bibliography 221 Index 229 CONTENTS +X)URQWPDWWHULQGG $0 ...