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" The Nanking Christ " (1920) is a short story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa about a 15-year-old Chinese Christian girl named Sun Jin, who is forced into prostitution in Nanking. The girl believes that the Christ saved her from syphilis by appearing to her at night. The work explores themes of faith, vice, miracles, and the human capacity to believe in salvation, even if it is illusory.
