American Goddess at the Rape of Nanking
The Courage of Minnie Vautrin

"The rape of Nanking" in 1937 is so called because an estimated 20,000 women were raped by the invading Japanese army. This is a biography of Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary who protected 10,000 Chinese women and children from the invaders - at the eventual cost of her own life.

The Japanese army's brutal occupation of the city of Nanking during the 1937 Sino-Japanese War is known, for good reason, as "the rape of Nanking". As they slaughtered an estimated 300,000 people, the invading soldiers raped more than 20,000 women - some estimates run as high as 80,000. Hua-ling Hu presents here the amazing untold story of the American missionary Minnie Vautrin, whose unswerving defiance of the Japanese protected the lives of 10,000 Chinese women and children - at the eventual cost of her own - and made her a legend among the Chinese people she served.