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The Rape Of Nanking by Iris Chang

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Book name: The Rape Of Nanking (2024)
Category: Asian History
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Pages: 400 pages
Language: English
Publication data: Jan. 1, 1997, midnight
The book provides a harrowing account of the atrocities committed by the Japanese army during their invasion of Nanking, China, in 1937. It details the brutal massacre and widespread sexual assault inflicted upon the civilian population, highlighting the immense suffering and loss endured by the victims. Through meticulous research and survivor testimonies, the narrative exposes the extent of the violence and the subsequent denial and minimization of these events by the Japanese government. The work serves as a poignant reminder of the horrors of war and the importance of historical memory and justice.

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Iris Chang

Iris Chang

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Iris Shun-Ru Chang was a Chinese-American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, when she was just 36 years old.

The daughter of two university professors who had emigrated from China, Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois where she attended the University Laboratory High School from which she graduated in 1985. She then earne… Read more