Japanese Girl at the Siege of Changchun

many have heard of the Rape of Nanking (a Japanese war atrocity) but the Siege of Changchun is equally horrific, with over 150,000 innocents dead, not butchered so much as starved.

feeds into the discussion of what the US's relationship with China should be, considering their continuing oppression of their own people

sure to be a controversial book and denounced, as the Chinese government refuses to discuss this incident; in fact, the Japanese government may use its publication in English for its own propaganda purposes: that is, we intend to be a part of the news as this story evolves.

feeds also into discussion of Japan's own wartime atrocities, which are more widely known

an amazing and loving portrait of a family, very much in the model of Anne Frank, from a young girl's perspective; in this case, the author does survive and remains a living witness to all she has seen