It is a wartime diaries of Minnie Vautrin and Tsen, Shui-fang. It is also the first time for the Tsen's diary translated in English - 84 day diaries about the Nanking Massacre. The entries of Vautrin and Tsen's diaries are displayed side-by-side from December 8, 1937 to March 1, 1938. It gives the reader a better understanding of what really happened during the Japanese soldiers raped, looted, and destroyed the city of Nanking.
Vautrin was doing missionary work in Nanking during the wartime; Tsen was a professional nurse who served at the Qinling College when the Japanese invaded Nanking.
I only finished the first twenty pages and my heart just dropped. I was speechless. I can feel the fear and sadness of Vautrin and Tsen from from the words, and incomplete sentences ... It took me another day to pick up the book again.
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