Nanjing requiem

By Ha Jin

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

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.