 | This article contains too many or overly lengthy quotations. (January 2021) |
 First edition cover of The Good Man of Nanking | |
| Author | John Rabe |
|---|---|
| Translator | John E. Woods |
| Language | English |
| Subject | Nanjing Massacre |
| Genre | Autobiography |
| Publisher | Knopf Publishing Group |
Publication date | November 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 384 pp (first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-375-40211-X |
| OCLC | 38595490 |
| 951.04/2 21 | |
| LC Class | DS796.N2 R3313 1998 |
| This article is part of the series on the |
| Nanjing Massacre |
|---|
| Japanese war crimes |
| Historiography of the Nanjing Massacre |
| Films |
| Books |
The Good Man of Nanking: The Diaries of John Rabe is a collection of the personal journals of John Rabe, a German businessman who lived in Nanjing at the time of the Nanjing Massacre in 1937–1938. The book contains the diaries that Rabe kept during the Nanjing Massacre, writing from his personal experience and observation of the events that took place. It also excerpts Rabe's experience in immediate post-war Berlin, then occupied by Soviet troops. Rabe's diaries were made known and quoted by author Iris Chang during the research for her book, The Rape of Nanking;[1] they were subsequently translated from German to English by John E. Woods and published in the United States in 1998. The diaries of Rabe could only provide witnesses of a small corner of the Nanjing Massacre, because of the limitation of his activity in the safe zone.
- ^ Benson, Heidi (17 April 2005). "Historian Iris Chang won many battles/The war she lost raged within". SFGate. Retrieved 28 August 2007.