Nanjing never cries
Subtitle: a novel
By: Hong Zheng
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781944347000
Subjects: Nanking Massacre, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937; Fiction; College teachers; Chinese; College students
Description: "Nanjing Never Cries is a historical novel set around the second Sino-Japanese War (1937 to 1945). It follows two MIT students, one born in Salem, MA and the other a Chinese exchange student, as they become best friends and advance through their careers. As professors, the two settle in Nanjing and are present for the horrific massacre that takes place there when Japan invades. One is killed; friends and family flee. The story concludes years later, as one of their protégés seeks justice in the arrest and, she hopes, execution of the Japanese soldier who killed her civilian father."--
Table of contents: title: Prologue; title: Book I. The story of Chen May. The best student at MIT; title: Going to school; title: The Boxer reparation foundation; title: The invasion of Manchuria; title: The genie in the bottle; title: The boils; title: The British were no smugglers; title: Qianlong, mark and period; title: An American in nanjing; title: The mausoleum builders; title: Book II. The collector. The museum director; title: The Xian incident; title: The red face and the black face; title: The wine house on the Qinhuai River; title: The little maid; title: The Huangpu Military School; title: Meeting the generalissimo; title: Book III. The great enigma. Welcome, the great Japanese Imperial Army; title: The Panay incident; title: The refugees; title: The Japanese enter the city; title: To Hell's gate and back; title: The Nanjing Safety Zone; title: The first blossom; title: Victory!; title: The locket; title: Epilogue.