{"id":13791,"date":"2011-08-15T09:11:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T13:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=13791"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:56:52","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T13:56:52","slug":"nanjing-requiem-by-ha-jin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/nanjing-requiem-by-ha-jin\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanjing Requiem by Ha Jin [in Library Journal]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/08\/Nanjing-Requiem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-27936\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2011\/08\/Nanjing-Requiem.jpg\" alt=\"Nanjing Requiem\" width=\"380\" height=\"583\" \/><\/a><strong>*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong><br \/>\nIn an introductory galley letter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalbook.org\/nbaacceptspeech_hjin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">National Book Award winner<\/a>\u00a0Ha Jin (<em>Waiting<\/em>, 1999) announces his intent to reclaim American missionary Minnie Vautrin\u2019s heroism during the 1937 Nanjing massacre: \u201cShe suffered and ruined herself helping others, but she became a legend. At least her story has moved me to write a novel about her. If I succeed, my book might put her soul at peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While many were fleeing the city as it came under Japanese attack, Vautrin opened Jinling Women\u2019s College to 10,000 mostly women and children and repeatedly risked her life to save refugees from the atrocities the Japanese military inflicted on Chinese civilians during the Sino-Japanese War. Vautrin\u2019s experiences are filtered through the perspective of her fictional Chinese assistant, who records both Vautrin\u2019s courage and her agonizing demise over the victims she couldn\u2019t save.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Verdict:\u00a0<\/strong><em>Requiem<\/em> is necessary testimony, but as with Iris Chang\u2019s groundbreaking <em>The Rape of Nanking<\/em>, readers should be aware of the book\u2019s relentless, graphic horror. Jin\u2019s loyal readers will notice a bluntness \u2013\u00a0jarringly effective here \u2013\u00a0different from his previous works, as if Jin, too, must guard himself against the horror, the horror.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraryjournal.com\/lj\/reviews\/book\/891243-421\/fiction_reviews_august_2011.html.csp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;Fiction,&#8221; <em>Library Journal<\/em>, August 15, 2011<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>*STARRED REVIEW In an introductory galley letter, National Book Award winner\u00a0Ha Jin (Waiting, 1999) announces his intent to reclaim American missionary Minnie Vautrin\u2019s heroism during the 1937 Nanjing massacre: \u201cShe suffered and ruined herself helping others, but she became a legend. 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