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The Rape of Nanking: An Undeniable
History in Photographs is out of print and not generally available in bookstores. A limited number
of copies are available through this Website at the list price of US$60.00 per copy (or the equivalent in euros,
pounds, yen, or Canadian dollars) plus shipping and handling --
but only via PayPal.com.
To order, send an e-mail to nanking@tribo.org with your name and shipping address (which must be the same as the address on your PayPal account). We'll reply with the total cost and instructions on how to direct payment. If you do not already have a PayPal account, it's easy to establish one, and the service is free. Books will ordinarily be shipped within a week of confirmation of payment; delivery will ordinarily be by UPS Ground unless you request otherwise. Please understand: This is not a store, there's no mailroom, there are no employees; we can't send gift copies and we can't promise instant turnarounds. Note: As of March 25, 2004 the December 1997 expanded 2d edition, printed in Chicago, is completely sold out. We do, however, have a supply of copies that were printed in China in July 1999 from the same plates. The cataloging-in-publication data page was changed (into untranslated Chinese) to reflect the new printing, by the Blue Star Art Printing Co. Ltd. in Shenzhen, for a joint venture of a People's Daily subsidiary and the Hainan Publishing Co. The "Expanded 2d Edition" banners were removed from the dust jacket, but the book is otherwise identical to the 1997 edition except for two pages: On what had been a blank page, the Chinese publishers placed a photograph of Gen. Zhang Xueliang at home in Hawaii in 1995, on the 50th anniversary of the Japanese surrender; and they replaced a page listing editorial staff credits with an introductory essay titled "Revisiting Cruelty" (in Chinese, untranslated) by the contemporary poet and writer Lei Shuyan, dated June 10, 1999 in Beijing. We will include a photocopy of the original staff listing with all future orders. Virtually everything else in the book, including all text, picture captions, endnotes, and the index, is in parallel English and Chinese. Three appendices -- excerpts from the diaries of the educator Minnie Vautrin and the physician Robert O. Wilson, and from the records of the International Committee for the Nanking Safety Zone -- are in the original English only. (Gen. Zhang, known as "the Little Marshal" to distinguish him from his father, also a celebrated military leader, was a hero of the Chinese resistance to Japanese aggression. On December 12, 1936 he and Gen. Yang Hucheng kidnapped and imprisoned the Nationalist government's leader Chiang Kai-shek (in the famous "Xi'an Incident") until he agreed to cooperate with the Communists in active resistance to the Japanese. In exchange for Chiang's cooperation, Gen. Zhang agreed to refrain from politics and submit to house arrest, and remained so for fifty years, both on the Mainland and on Taiwan. He was freed in 1987, twelve years after Chiang's death. He emigrated to Hawaii and lived there until his own death in 2001 at the age of 100.)
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