China | Facing History & Ourselves

China

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Last Modified April 8, 2021
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Lesson

The Nanjing Atrocities: The Range of Responses

Students analyze the spectrum of choices available to individuals, groups, and nations during the Nanjing atrocities.

 Chinese citizens, and American and British visitors, evacuate Nanjing in preparation for an attack by the Japanese.
Reading

All-China Resistance Association of Writers and Artists

Learn about a resistance group that used literary efforts to respond to the Japanese occupation of China.

 

This scene depicts the Taiping Rebellion, a period of civil war and uprising in China that lasted from 1850–1864.
Reading

The Nanjing Safety Zone

Read about the rescue efforts of a group of Westerners who created a safe place for Chinese refugees during the Nanjing atrocities.

 

Members of the Nanjing Safety Zone Committee
Reading

Japanese Diplomats

Read statements from Japanese diplomats rationalizing the brutality of Japanese troops in China.

 

Japanese marines during the Battle of Shanghai, 1937
Book

Red Scarf Girl

A child's nightmare unfolds in Ji-li Jiang's chronicle of the excesses of Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution in China in the late 1960s.

Reading

A Nation’s Past

The Shinto Yasukuni shrine has become a focal point for national tensions between China and Japan. 

A statue featuring a woman running, holding hands with a young girl while another young girl trails behind them. All show expressions of fear and distress on their faces.