Nanjing requiem
INITIAL_TITLE_SRCH:
Nanjing requiem
AUTHOR:
Jin, Ha, 1956-
哈金, 1956-
ISBN:
9780307743732
EDITION:
First vintage international edition.
PUBLICATION_INFO:
New York : Vintage Books, 2012.
PHYSICAL_DESC:
300 p. ; 21 cm
ABSTRACT:
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
SUBJECT:
| Women missionaries -- Fiction. |
| Americans -- China -- Fiction. |
| Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- China -- Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) -- Fiction. |
| Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 -- Fiction. |
| Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction. |
BIBSUMMARY:
During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.