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NEW DATA PROVIDES CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE NEARLY 370,000 CHINESE WERE MURDERED IN NANKING MASSACRE The Rape of Nanking is an innovative and credible work on modern Chinese history, according to Princeton University history professor Ying-shih Yü, who adds, "It is a solid and original study that maintains all the important standards of modern historiography." The work draws its main narrative from credible research techniques, including archives in Germany and Japan, records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, and the recollections of survivors of the Nanking massacre. While the total number of people killed in Nanking and its vicinity during the Nanking Massacre has been the subject of controversy, the evidence presented in The Rape of Nanking should put an end to this debate. For the second edition of the book, published on December 13, 1997 -- the 60th anniversary of the Rape of Nanking -- the authors carefully reviewed the records of Japanese military units, the puppet municipal government of Nanking established under Japanese occupation, and Chinese and international burial societies. These records conclusively demonstrate that no fewer than 369,366 bodies of Chinese men, women, and children were buried or otherwise "disposed of" by these agencies. The records leave open the possibility that there were in fact many more victims, but the authors eliminated from their tally any reports that might conceivably have been overlapping or unreliable.