Nanjing requiem
By: Ha Jin
Edition: 1st Vintage International ed.
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780307743732
Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women; Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945; Women missionaries; Americans; Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937; Fiction
Description: During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.