Minnie Vautrin

Minnie Vautrin

female, deceased (1941)
furlough, nanking massacre, safety zone, American, nanjing, nanking…Nanking Safety Zone
Wilhelmina (Minnie) Vautrin was an American missionary renowned for saving the lives of many women at the Ginling Girls College in Nanking, China...
Masaharu Homma

Masaharu Homma

male, deceased (1946)
Japanese people convicted of war crimes, death by firearm in the Philippines, Battle of the Philippines, invasion of the Philippines, militarist, manila…nanking
Masaharu Homma (本間雅晴 "Honma Masaharu", November 27, 1887 in Sado, Niigata Prefecture, Japan - April 3, 1946 in Los Baños, Laguna, Philippin...
Kesago Nakajima

Kesago Nakajima

male, deceased (1945)
Japanese Fourth Army, Fourth Army, nanking massacre, Second Sino-Japanese War, Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese…nanking, Nanking Operation
Kesago Nakajima (1881 – 1945) was a Lieutenant-General in the Imperial Japanese Army and, as commanding officer of the Japanese 16th Division in Na...

Yang Xiuqing

male, deceased (1856)
Military leader of the Taiping Rebellion, taiping rebellion, Confucianism, dissident, dragon, hakka…nanking
Yang Xiuqing, organizer and commander-in-chief of the Taiping Rebellion. Yang was a salesman of firewood in Guangxi province before he joined the...
Nicolas Trigault

Nicolas Trigault

male, deceased (1629)
De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas, Aesop's Fables, douai, nanking, Hangzhou, Jesuit China missions
Nicolas Trigault (1577-1629) was a French Jesuit, and a missionary to China. He was also known for his latinised name Trigautius or Trigaultius....
Alice Tisdale Hobart

Alice Tisdale Hobart

female
novelist, American women writer, Pioneering Where the World is Old, Leaves From a Manchurian Diary, By the City of the Long Sand, Within the Walls of Nanking…nanking
Alice Tisdale Hobart (1882-1967) born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, "Oil for the Lamps of...

Buwei Yang Chao

female, deceased (1981)
stir-fry, nanking, linguistics, Chinese American, Non-fiction writer, American
Buwei Yang Chao (1889 - 1981) was an American Chinese physician, writer of recipes, and wife of the eminent linguist Yuen Ren Chao. She is credited...

Shō Hashi

male, deceased (1439)
nanking, tribute, King of Ryūkyū, King of Chūzan, Azato district, Nakijin gusuku
Shō Hashi of Soshiki Mairi, he was seen as an able, well-liked administrator within his own lands, who rose in prominence at the opening of the 1...

Zhou Lianggong

male
Laigutang Ji, Chidu Xinchao, qing dynasty, manchu, qing, nanjing…nanking
Zhou Lianggong was a Chinese poet, born in Kaifeng was an essayist and art historian, and had long family ties to Nanjing. He passed his Jinshi...
Wu Yi Hui

Wu Yi Hui

male
Chinese Tai Chi Chuan practitioner, Goddess of Mercy, Eight Immortals, Liu Ho Ba Fa, Liuhe Bafa, Pien-Liang…nanking
Wu Yik Fan (Wu I-Hui, Wu Yihui) (1887-1961) was a Chinese martial artist and teacher in the martial arts. Wu Yik Fan was originally from Tieling in...