HUMAN 1A Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Nanjing, Voyeurism
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Nanking (film: witness testimony, staged reading of primary documents. City of life and death: chinese and japanese perspectives on the same events. A more mediated form of witnessing: horrors of war bubble gum cards: news and historical info, lurid illustrations depicting 2nd sino-japanese war, brief texts explaining the significance of the illustration. To know the horrors of war is to want peace kids ingesting anti-japanese propaganda: not at war with japanese at this time, predicts this propaganda was telling of an upcoming war between the us and.
