Talk:Battle of Nanking
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The image
editThere has been an slow ongoing edit war about this image for a while. I think for readers with familiarity in the historiography of Second Sino-Japanese War, the propaganda nature of this image should be apparent (as both the Chinese and the Japanese actively participated in producing photographies for their narrative). Personally I think it is fine to include this image, but the nature of the image should be indicated somewhere. One problem is that photos from the China Incident Photograph Album (where this photo was from) are not consistently propagandist, and I cannot find any sources explicitly calling out these images as propagandist, so I can see arguments for both sides. Any thoughts? Alex Shih (talk) 22:53, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
- This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
I’ve added a note stating it is from a Japanese source. The album contains many similar images whose accuracy is disputed by the Nanking massacre, so it’s likely to be propaganda.FormosaKMT (talk) 20:32, 4 November 2018 (UTC)
- This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
I personally think that this photograph should be removed, because it isn't directly related to the text. All the other photographs depict events that are specifically mentioned in the article text. However, there is no mention in the article text about Chinese children playing with a toy tank. Out of all the photographs, this one seems like the odd photo out.Tessa Bennet (talk) 01:45, 25 February 2019 (UTC) ...
- This is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:02, 12 April 2024 (UTC)
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Please update the hatnote
{{About|the 1937 battle|the 1853 battle|Battle of Nanjing (1853)|the 1864 battle|Third Battle of Nanking}}
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{{About|the 1937 battle|other battles|Battles of Nanking}}
Most of the pictures are blatant propaganda and shameless biased towards showing Japanese in a good light
editThis is shameless and completely wrong depiction of the battle of nanking and truth of the aftermath which resulted in the brutal and horrendous rape of nanking. This is one of the most blatantly wrong pages on wikipedia for such an important event in modern japanese and chinese history. It is almost as if Tojo made this page himself for propaganda. Dabigman69 (talk) 15:04, 12 April 2024 (UTC)