 In writing about this horrific event , Chang strives to portray it as an unexamined Asian holocaust . Unfortunately , she undermines her argument — she is not a trained historian — by neglecting the wealth of sources in English and Japanese on this event . This leads her into errors such as greatly inflating the population of Nanjing ( Nanking ) at that time and uncritically accepting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal and contemporary Chinese figures for the numbers of Chinese civilians and soldiers killed . What particularly struck me about her argument was her attempt to charge all Japanese with refusing to accept the fact of the ' Rape of Nanking ' and her condemnation of the ' persistent Japanese refusal to come to terms with its <unk> 
