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Tag: Nanjing Massacre

This picture taken on February 1, 2017 shows statues symbolizing so-called "comfort women" in a park in Shanghai. Photo: AFP / Johannes Eisele
Posted inOpinion

Academics, nationalisms and ‘comfort women’

by Shaun O'Dwyer April 1, 2021November 22, 2021

In Lu Chuan’s 2009 film about the 1937 Nanjing Massacre, City of Life and Death, a harrowing panorama unfolds in which we view human cruelty and sympathy, victors and vanquished. It approximates the artistic ideal Hannah Arendt called “Homeric Impartiality”. Yet the film’s focus is the pity of war, not its grandeur.  Two characters in this […]

Posted inOpinion

China’s national anthem means peace and unity

by Lillian Sing and Julie Tang June 17, 2020June 17, 2020
This picture taken on February 1, 2017 shows statues symbolizing so-called "comfort women" in a park in Shanghai. Photo: AFP / Johannes Eisele
Posted inAT Finance, Beijing, Bhutan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Middle East, Nepal, North Korea, Northeast Asia, Philippines, South Asia, South Korea, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Vietnam, World

How Beijing weaponizes ‘comfort women’ as propaganda tool

by Jason Morgan March 24, 2018February 18, 2020
Posted inChina, Japan, Northeast Asia, World

The ‘Western front’ of the war over ‘The Rape of Nanking’

by Randy Hopkins November 21, 2017February 18, 2020
APA Group CEO Toshio Motoya, holding his book that denies the 1937 massacre by Japanese troops in the Chinese city of Nanjing ever took place, arrives at a news conference in Tokyo on June 2, 2017.  Image: Reuters
Posted inChina, Japan, North Korea, Northeast Asia

Hotel won’t remove Nanjing denial books for Olympics

by Reuters June 2, 2017February 18, 2020

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