Biographical sketches -- Minnie Vautrin (1886-1941) -- Tsen Shiu-fang (1875-1969) -- A note on the two diaries -- Excerpts from the diaries, December 8, 1937, to March 1, 1938 -- Receiving refugees at Ginling College under intensified bombardment -- Japanese occupation of Nankin…
[During the Rape of Nanking,] Vautrin, acting president of Ginling College, assisted by Tsen Shui-fang and a small Chinese staff, turned the women's college into a refugee camp specifically for women and children ... Vautrin's diary focuses on Gingling's refugee camp and the suf…
[During the Rape of Nanking,] Vautrin, acting president of Ginling College, assisted by Tsen Shui-fang and a small Chinese staff, turned the women's college into a refugee camp specifically for women and children ... Vautrin's diary focuses on Gingling's refugee camp and the suf…
During the infamous "Rape of Nanking," a brutal military occupation of Nanking, China, that began in December 1937, it is estimated that Japanese soldiers killed between 200,000 and 300,000 Chinese and raped between 20,000 and 80,000 women. In response to the atrocities, a group…