Depraving and Violating: The 1937 Ravishing of Nanking, a Depletion of a Capital

• In Event: Issues of Political Economy in Asian Systems

Brief Overview

The massacre of Nanking, China in December 1937 was for the political advantage of capturing Chinese resources, expanding and beginning colonization efforts in Asia, and installing the Japanese government across colonized places (Hu, 2020, 1452).

Author

• Kaitlyn McKnight, University of Southern Mississippi