As part of a worldwide movement, nations and multinational groups are trying to reach closure regarding past atrocites and inhumanites, including what happened in Nanking in 1937. The contributors to this book show that these activites are a search for the common causes of human atrocites.

Part 1 Nanking in a Global Context; Chapter 1 The Nanking Massacre as a Historical Symbol, Ian Buruma; Chapter 2 Redressing Grievances: Assessing the Nanking Massacre, Richard Falk; Part 2 Revisiting Nanking: Views from China and Japan; Chapter 3 Causes of the Nanking Massacre, Sun Zhaiwei, Kurt Beidler; Chapter 4 The Nanking Massacre Reassessed: A Study of the Sino-Japanese Controversy over the Factual Number of Massacred Victims, Lee En-Han; Chapter 5 Remembering the Nanking Massacre, Kasahara Tokushi; Chapter 6 The Overall Picture of the “Nanking Massacre”, Higashinakano Shudo; Part 3 Remembering Nanking; Chapter 7 Reporting the “Fall of Nankin” and the Suppression of a Japanese Literary “Memory” of the Nature of a War, Haruko Taya Cook; Chapter 8 Refighting the Nanking Massacre: The Continuing Struggle over Memory; Part 4 Healing the Wounds; Chapter 9 The “Black Milk” of Historical Consciousness: Thinking About the Nanking Massacre in Light of Jewish Memory, Vera Schwarcz; Chapter 10 The Tokyo War Crimes Trial, War Responsibility, and Postwar Responsibility, Onuma Yasuaki; Chapter 11 Toward a Common Historical Understanding: The Nanking Massacre as a Challenge of Transnational History, Daqing Yang;