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Nanjing requiem

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.

Main Author:	Jin, Ha, 1956-
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	Prince Frederick, MD : Recorded Books, 2011.
Edition:	[Library ed.], unabridged
Subjects:	Women missionaries > Fiction. Americans > China > Fiction. Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 > China > Nanjing (Jiangsu Sheng) > Fiction. Nanjing, Battle of, Nanjing, Jiangsu Sheng, China, 1937 > Fiction. Self-actualization (Psychology) in women > Fiction. Historical fiction > China. Biographical fiction > China. War stories > China.

Summary:	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.
Physical Description:	10 sound discs (11.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
ISBN:	9781461807568 1461807565
Author Notes:	Ha Jin left his native China in 1985 and is now a professor of English at Emory University. He is author of, among other works, two short-story collections: Ocean of Words, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, and Under the Red Flag, which won the Flannery O'Connor Award for short fiction. His novel Waiting won the National Book Award for fiction in 1999. He lives in Atlanta. (Bowker Author Biography)

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