Sentence examples for nanking from inspiring English sources

The British held against that offensive, however, and captured Nanjing (Nanking) in late August, which put an end to the fighting.

Tao Sheng studied in the capital city of Chien-k'ang (Nanking) under Chu Fa-t'ai Fa-t'aispent yearsevenh Hui yearsin the monastery at Lu-shan, and then with nortHuio Ch'ang-an where, in association with Kumārajīva, he became one of the most learned and eloquent of Buddhist scholars.

During the first five decades of the subsequent Ming dynasty (1368 1644), Nanjing (Nanking) was the capital, and the old Mongol capital was renamed Beiping (Pei-p'ing; "Northern Peace"); the third Ming emperor, however, restored it as the imperial seat of the dynasty and gave it a new name, Beijing ("Northern Capital").

Diehard supporters of reunification with the mainland have asked why a Taiwanese event should get special treatment rather than, for instance, the Marco Polo Bridge incident, which began the war with Japan in 1937, or the rape of Nanking.

The statement will come under scrutiny by Japan's neighbours, especially South Korea and China, who were victims of Japan during World War II and who believe the Abe government glosses over the atrocities committed — most famous of which was the massacre of Nanking.

The most important step was Cordell Hull's emphatic protest by the issue simultaneously through the American Embassy in Tokio and the Japanese Embassy in Washington against the Japanese threatened serial attack upon Nanking.

Bale appeared in Zhang Yimou's The Flowers of War, set during the Nanking massacre.

Scholars on both sides continue to revile each other either as Japan-bashers, or as apologists for imperialism.In Japan, the Nanking "Incident"—still too controversial even to have a settled name is central to a wider debate about history teaching in Japanese schools.

SIR —Regarding your article on the Japanese denial in the 1930s to 1940s of the alleged enslavement of "comfort women": Mr Shinzo Abe and Economist readers need look no further than Iris Changs well researched and balanced work "The Rape of Nanking" for the truth regarding this and related matters.

The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia and a Chinese museum commemorating the "Rape of Nanking" by Japanese soldiers in 1937 have drawn on Yad Vashem.

In recent years, the firm has produced "Nanking!