In one of the books that i have, nanking 19 37, memory and healing, they have a chinese historian who's giving what is, i guess it's the recognized chinese view of this thing. And he wants you to know how nasty it got. A person who says there were only forty five people who died in this whole wouldcall the chinese a liar or their government a bunch of people just wanting to hold this over japan's head. But here's what chinese historian sansawe says happened in nanking. In general, the massacre itself can be divided into two types of killings, mass killings and sporadic killing.