"The 1937 rape of Nanking by the Japanese Imperial army is one of those historical events which defy linguistic modifiers; "tragedy" or "atrocity" do not approach the sadistic nihilism, the scale and scope, the wanton intensity of the horror... Any such protracted monstrous event could only be imagined with a certain surreal dissonance, and that is what Wing-chi has drafted for us. It asks, how does one face what one cannot bear to see?" -A. B. Spellman, Poet & Witness to Jazz. Former Deputy Chairman, U.S. National Endowment for the Arts ..".Chan dares to literalize a contest of forces-not...