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New scholarly books by History Department faculty
Takashi Yoshida, Associate Professor of History, is author of The Making of the “Rape of Nanking”: History and Memory in Japan, China, and the United States, published in March 2006 by Oxford University Press. The Nanjing Massacre occurred in 1937-38 when the Japanese army captured the Chinese Capital City of Nanjing and committed wholesale atrocities. Yoshida draws on rich sources from Japan, China and the US, to document and analyze how journalists and scholars polemically exploited this tragic event from its occurrence until today.
Victor Xiong, Professor of History, published Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy in February 2006. Xiong, a specialist in pre-modern Chinese urban and cultural history, presents a long overdue reassessment of the often controversial career of Emperor Yang. According to Professor Emeritus Albert E. Dien of Stanford University, a widely published scholar of early Chinese history and culture, “this book marks a new phase in the study of this pivotal period in Chinese history.” For more information see the State University of New York Press.
Professor Lynne Heasley is the author of A Thousand Pieces of Paradise: Landscape and Property in the Kickapoo Valley. More information is available at the University of Wisconsin Press website.