HUMAN 1CS Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Nanjing, Human Behavior, Pathos
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Be sure to describe the artifact, time period, and source. Potential artifacts: the pianist, saving private ryan, schindler"s list. Writing to hitler for help is normal. Appeals to nazi party and gets in trouble when returning back to germany. Very easy to overlook the nazis at that time. In us, japanese americans are being interned at the same time of japanese attacking nanking. Repression and forgetting (main approach in nanking: societal repression and forgetting, rape of nanking did not show up until 60 years later (economic and political concerns) 60 years of repression makes it hard to reverse the process of repression. China wanted to guard its image; economic relations with japan. Japan trying to avoid more charges of war crimes. Us/europe don"t want to draw attention to themselves. China needs to maintain fa ade during cold war and maintain relationship with.
