Nanjing requiem

By Ha Jin

Subjects: Self-actualization (Psychology) in women, Fiction, Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937, Americans, Fiction, historical, Missionaries, fiction, China, fiction, Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945, Fiction, war & military, Women missionaries

Description: During the 1937 attack on Nanjing, American missionary and women's college dean Minnie Vautrin decides to remain at her school during a violent Japanese attack that renders the school a refugee center for ten thousand women and children.