Chang, Iris Shun-Ru

Chang, Iris Shun-Ru
▪ 2005

      American historian (b. March 28, 1968, Princeton, N.J.—d. Nov. 9, 2004, Los Gatos, Calif.), documented, in the best-selling book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997), the mass atrocities of murder and rape committed by the Japanese military while destroying the Chinese city during the Nanking Massacre of 1937–38. Her books Thread of the Silkworm (1995) and The Chinese in America (2003) examined Chinese American history. Her death was an apparent suicide.

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