Liu Shuwan,officer in Chinese armored unit,224—225
Liu Xiang,Chinese warlord,84,95—97,100,125—126,284 n.95
Liu Yongcheng,Chinese platoon commander,133
Liyang,Chinese city,152
looting,86—87,122,141—142,147,213,235,247—251,253,256
Lu,mountain,154
Lusitania,British ocean liner,233
Luzon,US Navy vessel,88
Ma Chaojun,Nanjing mayor,110
Machin,Mihail Grigor’evich,Russian pilot,132—133,136—137
Madame Chiang Kai-shek,China’s First Lady(Song Meiling),62,89,149,154—155
Magee,John,American missionary,151,201,242—243,245,256,259,305 n.54
Maine,U.S.Navy cruiser,233
Malaya,69
Man,the Unknown,1935 bestseller,117
Manchukuo,33,44,57,80,147,159,264
Manchuria,33,104,147;invasion in 1931 of,33,67
Manila,52,232
Mao Zedong,205,266
Marco Polo Bridge,battle at,33,99,107
Matsui Iwane,Japanese commander,36—38,56,68—69,85—86,121,138—139,157—158,162,182—183,186,196;Chiang Kai-shek and,36—37,69,139;diary,56,69,85,131—132,138—139,186,196,257—258;malaria,252;Nanjing massacre and,252—253,267;personality,36,147—148;politics and,79,147—148,257—258;promotion,131—132
McCallum,James,American missionary,247,249
Meiling,Chiang Kai-shek’s personal airplane,154
Metropol Hotel,267
Military Engineering School,140
Mills,W.Plumer,Safety Zone administrator,254
Ming,Chinese dynasty(1368—1644),27,30,106
Mitsuaki Hoshin,Japanese captain,217
Mitsubishi A5M,carrier-based Japanese fighter,20,133,169
Mitsubishi G3M,land-based Japanese bomber,21—23
Molingguan,Chinese town,157
Mongolia,78
Mori Hideo,Japanese first lieutenant,195,202
Mudong,Chinese village,239
Mufu,Chinese hill fortress,203
Murphy,Henry K.,American architect,28
Muto Akira,vice chief of staff of Japan’s Central China Area Army,57,77,185
Nagai Ryotaro,Japanese communications minister,104
Nakajima A4N,carrier-based Japanese fighter,22,214
Nakajima Kesago,commander of Japan’s 16th Division,45—46,194,203,248
Nanjing,29—32;air raids,52,59—62;city wall,22—23,27,29,31—32,81,84,133,139—140,143,149—150,157,162,166,170,178—181,183,185—186,188,194—196,198—201,203,208,211,213—214,223,225—226,239,259—260,308 n.171;decision to abandon,206,221—222,299 n.74;decision to defend,64—67;defensive works,139—142;evacuation of,54—55,95,109—111,142—143,151,155,213,215,238—240;lawlessness in,141—142,166;looting in,247—249;mood in,110,142,165—166;vigilance in,53
Nanjing city gates
Chinese Gate,181,189,200,209,216—217,227,
Gate of Enlightenment,140,179—181,186—189,192,195,197,199—200,210—212,214,221,227,233,296 n.101
Gate of Great Peace,212,223,230
Sun Yat-Sen Gate,140,182,185,194,202—203,211,213—214,227—228
Tongji Gate,186
Yijiang Gate,222—223,230,262
Nanjing Safety Zone,88,150—151,166,201,219—220,223,229,234,237—238,240—242,247,249—250,253—255,257,261,267
Nanqiantou,Chinese hamlet,145
Nanzha,Chinese village,130
Napoleon Bonaparte,38
National Geographic,28,52,274 n.32
Nationalist Party,Chinese political party(also known as Kuomintang or Guomindang),28,51,108,219
Neurath,Konstantin von,German foreign minister,134—135
New Life Journal,Chinese newspaper,258
New York Times,The,34,64,85,116,158,161,188,197,243,251,263
night fighting,75,92—93,120,124—125,191,196—197,220,225—226
Nine Power Treaty(1922),71;Nine Power Treaty Conference,see Brussels Conference
Ningguo,Chinese city,152,157,240
Nishizawa Benkichi,Japanese first lieutenant,75,146
Northrop Gamma,US-built airplane,17—21,272 n.4
Oahu,U.S.gunboat,232
observation balloons,105—106,186,193
Oi,Japanese light cruiser,69
Okumiya Masatake,Japanese lieutenant,214—215
Old Tiger’s Cave,Chinese strongpoint,167—168
Oliver,Frank,foreign correspondent,244
Organization of Mechanized Forces,The,military treatise by Jiang Baili,90
Osaka Mainichi,171
Ox Head Peak,170—171
Pan Wenhua,Chinese general,125
Panay,U.S.gunboat,143,215—216,231—233
Pearl Harbor,214
Peng Deming,second lieutenant,Chinese Air Force,17—21
Philippines,69
Pinghu,Chinese town,146
Polikarpov Ⅰ—16,Soviet fighter,132—133,169
Prussia,160
Pukou,Chinese city,152,200—201,225,230
puppet governments in occupied areas,158,257—258
Purple Mountain,27,29,60,87,140,150,154,167—168,186,193—195,198,202—203,211—213,231
Puyi,last Chinese emperor,33
Qing,Chinese dynasty(1644—1911),28,205
Qingpu,Chinese city,38
Qiweng Bridge,181,188
Qixia,mountain near Nanjing,118,260
Rabe,John,German businessman,23—26,31,88,134,144,150—151,182—183,186,192,201,219—222,229,235,244,248—252,256—257,260—261,265,267
Rain,19,51,55,59,75—76,111,115—116
Rao Guohua,Chinese general,99,126
rape,145,243,245—247,250—253,305 n.64
rasputitsa(Russian quagmire season),75
Rice,Edmond L.,physician,51
Riggs,Charles,Nanjing University professor,201,229
ronin,249,256
Roosevelt,Franklin D.,232
Rosen,Georg,German diplomat,144
Royal Navy,143—144,231
Russia(pre-1917 state),33,69,71,81,93,185,205
Russian pilots,39—41,112—113,132—133,136—137,148—149,168—170,177—178,265,295 n.75
Russo-Japanese War(1904—1905),33,69,81,93,101,185
Rychagov,Pavel Vasilievich,Soviet fighter pilot,40—41
Rytov,Andrei Gerasimovich,Soviet political commissar,39—40,112
safety zone,see Nanjing Safety Zone
Saito Chujiro,Japanese private,198
Sandri,Sandro,Italian journalist,215—216
Sasaki Touichi,commander of Japan’s 30th Brigade,44—45,68—69,157,194
Scarab,Royal Navy gunboat,232
Schenke,Wolf,German journalist,118
“scorched earth” tactics(see also arson),51,68,142,153,161,166,209,213,224
Sd.Kfz.221,German-made armored car,89
Shandong,33,44
Shanghai,1937 battle of,14,17,18—19,24,33—36,41—43,45,55—57,66,70,88,91—93,106—109,116,151,163,189—190,197,212,230,266
Shanghai,1932 battle of,18,37,68,72,140
Shen Xian,Chinese officer heading anti-aircraft battery,149—150,218—219,230,239
Shigeto Chiaki,Japanese major general,276 n.83
Shimomura Sadamu,chief of operations,Japanese Army General Staff,45,82,102,122—123
Shinsei Maru No.1,Japanese cargo vessel,44—45,67—68
Shuhu,Chinese village,163—164
Shukotsi,Russian pilot,178
Sian,Chinese town,100,125
Sichuan province,95—97,99—100,106,124—125
Sindberg,Bernhard,Danish businessman,118—119,260
Smirnov,Pyotr Alexandrovich,Soviet deputy defense minister,39—40
Smushkevich,Yakov Vladimirovich,deputy commander of Soviet Air Force,41
Smythe,Lewis,American teacher,229,237,245,255
snow,253,255
Snow,Edgar,American correspondent,245
Song Meiling,see Madame Chiang Kaishek
Song Xilian,Chinese general,187,221
Soong,T.V.,former Chinese finance minister,53
Soviet Union,38—39,45,69,72,75,78—80,135,146,221,289 n.27;assistance to China,39—41,111-112,133,176—177,221,265,287 n.55
Spanish Civil War,14,40—41,205,257
Spanish-American War,233
Stalin,Josef,Soviet leader,265
Stampa,La,Italian newspaper,215
Standard Oil,215
State Department,U.S.,28,144,186
Steele,Archibald,American journalist,236,238,253
Stephens,Phil Pembroke,British journalist,118
stragglers,Chinese 75,121,181,188,198,239;Japanese,124
Suda Keizou,lieutenant commander,Japanese Navy Air Service,21—22
Suenaga Kenichiro,Japanese second lieutenant,94
Sugamo Prison,267
Sun Ke,president of China’s legislative assembly,221,301 n.48
Sun Yat-sen,founder of Chinese republic,28—29,60,66,87—88,266,274 n.48
Sun Yat-sen Gate,140,182,185,194,202—203,211,213—214,227—228
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum,29,60,66,87—88,266
Sun Yuanliang,66,189,221
Supreme Defense Council,Chinese governing body,53
Suzhou,Chinese city,21—22,51,73,77,81—82,85—87,96,102,105,158
Suzhou Creek,38,55
Suzhou-Jiaxing stop line,73—74,77,81—82,102
Tada Hayao,deputy chief,Japanese Army General Staff,39,79,81—82,102,123,131,159,264,275 n.68—69,288 n.1
Taicang,Chinese city,38,58
Taierzhuang,battle of,262—263
Taihoku,capital of Taiwan,21
Taiping,Chinese city,152
Taiping rebellion(1850—1864),31,205—206
Taiwan,21,32,45,56,276 n.83
Tamai Katsunori(penname Hino Ashihei),Japanese corporal,48—51,62,276 n.1
Tan Daoping,Chinese officer,266
Tanaka Sueo,Japanese consul general,255—256
Tang Shengzhi,Chinese general,66—67,88—91,96,106—107,134,155—156,167,188,213;after battle,262,266;career,67,83—84,90;decision to abandon Nanjing,206,221—222,299 n.74;health,67,84;named garrison commander,83;personality,83—84;rumors of execution,262;truce proposals and,182—183,186—187,220—222
Tangshui,Chinese village,157,193—194
Tatung,British steamer,143
Taylor,Harry B.,American missionary,232
Terada Masao,Japanese colonel,73—74,281 n.3
Tian Zhongyi,Chinese officer,96
Tianjin,north Chinese port city,37,147,200,258,263
Tianwangsi,Chinese town,138
Tiexinqiao,Chinese town,172
Times of London,The,103,107,143,249
Tokyo,38,45,62,64,70,72—74,76,78—79,81—82,102,122—123,131,144,159—161,183,193,219,233,252—253,264—265,267,281 n.1
Trautmann,Oskar,German ambassador to China,78—81,123—124,134—135,144,221
Tsukinoki Masao,Japanese colonel,94—95
Tuck-Wo,British steamer,143
Tupolev SB,Soviet bomber,132,136,149,177
Twinem,Mary,Ginling College staff member,251
Type 94,Japanese tankette,152
Unicorn Gate,167,198
Utley,Freda,British journalist,117
Vautrin,Minnie,American university teacher,25—27,51,53,59,110,115,142,161,166,201,229,235,245—246,249,251—257,261
Vickers Carden Lloyd,British tank manufacturer,89
Voroshilov,Kliment,Soviet defense minister,176
Wakizaka Jiro,Japanese colonel,179,189
Wang Chonghui,Chinese foreign minister,160—161
Wang Jingwei,Chinese politician,289,n.24
Wang Yaowu,Chinese general,165
Wantung,British vessel,215
warlords,Chinese regional power holders,84,95—96,99,104,106—107,126,128
Weather,see Rain and Snow
Wehrmacht,14,42
Wickert,Erwin,German student,31—32
Wilson,Robert Ory,American doctor,59,117,151,201,219,258
Wong,C.C.,Chinese artillery officer,61
World War One,see Great War
Wufu defensive line,84—86,105
Wuhan,Chinese city,52,54,88,123—124,134,143,154,156,160,175,176,202,220—221,259,277 n.10
Wuhu,Chinese city,65,81,96,114,117,125,131,143,231—232
Wujin,see Changzhou
Wulong,Chinese hill fortress,203
Wusong,port near Shanghai,136
Wuxi,Chinese city,121,166
Xia Min’an,Chinese company commander,120
Xiaguan,district in Nanjing,109,111,115,143,155,161,192,194,222,224,229—230,233,238—239,242
Xiang Hongyuan,Chinese lieutenant,180—182
Xiao,mountain near Jiangyin,129
Xiaolingwei,Chinese town,168
Xicheng defensive line,105
Xinjiekou,square in Nanjing,165
Xinshengbao,Chinese newspaper,258
Xu Mo,Chinese vice foreign minister,134
Xu Shiying,Chinese ambassador to Tokyo,70—71
Xuanwu Lake,27,194
Xuzhou,Chinese city,262
Yamagiwa Kiichi,Japanese captain,179
Yamamoto Takeshi,Japanese senior private,55—56,86—87,164,188,210—211
Yanagawa Heisuke,Japanese general,64,73,78,80—81,83
Yang Jie,Chinese military representative in the Soviet Union,176
Yangtze,17,27—28,32,35,42,44—45,53,56—57,59,61,63,65,67—68,71,75,81,84,87—92,95—96,104—105,108,111,114,117—118,120,122,128,130—131,134—138,142—143,151—152,154,157,163,170,185,187,192,200—203,209,214—215,219,224,230—234,238—241,247,262,272 n.3
Yangtze Patrol,215
Yanziji,scenic spot near Nanjing,234
Yarnell,Harry,US admiral,commander of Asiatic Fleet,107,232,263
“Yellow Spears,” secret society,261
Yokosuka B4Y,carrier-based Japanese bomber,214
Yong Sui,Chinese naval vessel,53—54
Yu Jiemin,head of Chiang Kai-shek’s bodyguard,155,192—193
Yuhuatai hills,27,140,186,189—191,199,208—209,211
Yunnan province,156
ZB vz 26,Czech-made machine gun,48,129,138,180
Zhang Qun,Chiang Kai-shek’s secretary and former foreign minister,54,65,175,221
Zhejiang province,63
Zhenjiang,Chinese city,138,157,203
Zhongshan Road,street in Nanjing,51,109
Zhongyang Ribao,Chinese newspaper,51
Zhou Changgeng,Chinese squad commander,129
Zhou Zhenqiang,Chinese brigade commander,167
ZIS-5,Soviet truck,112
ZIS-6,Soviet truck,112