You've heard the phrase, "It made my blood run cold?"

[elspethdixon]

I don't want to read Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking anymore. I want to put it in the freezer, a la Joey and Phebe on Friends, and read something happy and safe and civilised, like Jane Austen.

Alas, my WWII class is before my 19th Century Women Writers class, so I cannot.

Comments

[kwobtchan.livejournal.com]

Well, when you're all done with it, you can always use it as a pedestal for your ice cream >).

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[elspethdixon.livejournal.com]

No, seriously, the ice-cream would be contaminated by the contact. This book is just... scary. Picture every atrocity you've heard about on the news in the past ten years, and imagine all of them happening in one city within about six weeks.

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[kwobtchan.livejournal.com]

If you just heard a popping sound, that was my brain rejecting the state of being whole in the light of such information.

[sidhe-elf.livejournal.com]

I did Chinese History in Year 12. I totally empathize with you. The Rape of Nanking and the Long March made me physically sick. It boggles my mind that such immense cruelness can be done by humans, and that a person can survive so much destruction and violence and horror. I still can't get those photos out of my mind, especially the one of all the bodies on the streets of Nanking, and the infamous shot of a man being shot point-blank in the head. I listened to the Shrek soundtrack while studying that and I've never been able to listened to it again. It's dirty. Contaminated, like you said. Ugh. Best of luck making your way through it all.