单选题 So the book titled "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War Ⅱ," by 30-year-old Chinese-American writer Iris Chang has the Japanese critics stirred up. Everyone from the former Japanese ambassador in Washington and Japan"s powerful conservative commentators down to the rightwing academics and ultranationalist fanatics has denounced it for emotional errors and distortions.
Where the Japanese can claim just a glimmer of morality was that they only killed those Asians suspected of being anti-Japan. They tried to be nice to those considered to be pro-Japan. Nazi killings of the Jew showed few such mercies.
But while Germany today apologizes, Japan prevaricates. Especially ugly is the way rightwingers and conservatives here airily dismiss the need to dredge up details of the past, but then pounce with minute detail on minor discrepancies in otherwise undeniable accounts of past atrocities.
A doubtful statistic on page 176 or one misplaced photo on page 274 is enough to slam the author and argue that maybe was no atrocity to begin with.
Equally ugly is the official habit of denying wrongdoings by claiming there are no official records. One reason for the absence of those records, of course, was the official policy of destroying all incriminating records as soon as the war ended.
The only reason we now know in detail about the Chinese forced laborers is because the only one of the many meticulous wartime reports on the subject not to suffer destruction at war"s end accidentally fell into the hands of the Taiwan authorities and could not be denied.
In Europe today any attempt to deny Nazi atrocities is a one-way ticket to denigration and possibly jail. In Japan today atrocity denial can easily be the path to fame and adulation in the conservative factions that control this nation.
On top of all this is the curious rightwing logic that says continued Chinese unhappiness over past and current wrongs is evidence that deep down the Chinese have always hated Japan, and therefore never needed to be apologized to in the first place.
Whether or not Nanjing suffered the amount of violence claimed by Chang is irrelevant. Whatever account we look at, it is clear that Japanese soldiers there killed and raped in large numbers. Indeed, ever since the first Japanese aggression against China in 1895, the Chinese nation has been raped repeatedly by Japan.
The Chinese are a proud people. Today they are asked not just to live with the rapist and accept his halfhearted apologies, but also to put up with backhanded claims that maybe the rape was deserved, or never happened at all. They also see a postwar Japan that has prospered through joining the United States in an alliance aimed to keep the former China victim backward and contained, and a Japanese rightwing trying hard to help detach some of the booty from the first 1895 "rape," namely Taiwan.
If I were a Chinese I would be very angry. Probably even angrier than Iris Chang.

单选题 According to the author, "The Rape of Nanjing" stirred up the Japanese critics because they ______ .

单选题 Speaking of morality, the Japanese ______ .

单选题 According the text, which of the following is not true?

单选题 By saying that "If I were a Chinese I would be very angry, "the author means ______ .

单选题 How does the author feel about the Japanese attitude?