The Good Man of Nanking

The Good Man of Nanking
First edition cover of The Good Man of Nanking
AuthorJohn Rabe
TranslatorJohn E. Woods
LanguageEnglish
SubjectNanjing Massacre
GenreAutobiography
PublisherKnopf Publishing Group
Publication date
November 1998
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages384 pp (first edition)
ISBN0-375-40211-X
OCLC38595490
951.04/2 21
LC ClassDS796.N2 R3313 1998

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.

  1. ^ Benson, Heidi (17 April 2005). "Historian Iris Chang won many battles/The war she lost raged within". SFGate. Retrieved 28 August 2007.