Ten Days at Yangzhou
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- Chinese: 揚州十日記 (Yángzhōu shí rìjì)
Yángzhōu shí rìjì, or "Record of Ten Days at Yangzhou," is a mid-17th century memoir written by Wang Xiuchou and describing the 1645 Yangzhou Massacre, in which Manchu forces raped & pillaged the city for ten days, in the course of the broader Qing Dynasty conquest of China.
The book was reprinted in tens of thousands of copies and widely circulated around the turn of the 20th century, by figures such as Liang Qichao, stirring up anti-Manchu sentiment.
References
- Pamela Kyle Crossley, A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology, University of California Press (1999), 349.
- Jonathan Spence, The Search for Modern China, Second Edition, W.W. Norton & Co. (1999), 35.
