The Rape Of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust Of World War II
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3 Not all of the survivors from the Rape of Nanking, however, suffered tragic fates. Sometimes I encountered numerous surprise endings, like the conclusion of the life of commander Tang Sheng-chih. Despite his fiasco at Nanking, Tang went on to enjoy a charmed existence in China. Things were rough for him at first, because the Nanking debacle left him in foul odor with the Nationalist party and forced him to return to his home province of Hunan without an official job. But after the Communists came to power, the new leadership embraced Tang—even though he had been a high-ranking military official in the enemy camp. Swiftly Tang rose to prominence, serving as lieutenant government of Hunan and a member of the National People’s Congress, the National Defense Committee, the Chinese National Party Revolutionary Committee and number of other organizations. Only after serving a long prestigious career in politics did he finally die on April 6, 1970—a revered official in his eighties.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chang, Iris.
The rape of Nanking : the forgotten holocaust of World War II /
Iris Chang.
p. cm.
Includes index.
eISBN : 978-0-786-72760-5
1. Nanking Massacre, Nan-ching shih, China, 1937.
2. Nan-ching shih (China)—History. I. Title.
DS796.N2C44 1997
951.04’2—DC21 97-24137
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