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...last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang's 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This was the massacre of an estimated 260,000 people, and the rape of as many as 20,000 women, by Japanese troops occupying Nanjing (formerly Nanking), then the Chinese capital. The book spent 10 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and made the 29-year-old a literary star. But Chang wanted to do more. "She firmly believed that a movie...
...That wish is now coming true in spades. No fewer than six movies about the massacre-including one about Chang herself-are in the works. The first, a documentary called Nanking, premiered at Sundance in January and will be screened at the Hong Kong International Film Festival in late March. It tells the story of a handful of American and European expatriates who established a neutral safety zone to protect some 200,000 Nanjing residents during the conflict. The film is the brainchild of Ted Leonsis, vice chairman of AOL (which, like TIME, is owned by Time Warner...
...does accept responsibility for the war and does feel Japan should do more to atone." Furthermore, "there's a huge community in Japan that's trying to stop the government from rewriting history," says director Nancy Tong, whose 1992 Nanjing documentary In the Name of the Emperor helped inspire Chang's book. Indeed, Japanese activists helped track down the former soldiers interviewed in Tong's movie and in Nanking, and provided some of the latter film's most disturbing footage: former members of the imperial army's Yamada Unit candidly discussing their detachment's execution of some 20,000 Chinese...
...meter dive. The swim portion of the meet saw all 10 Crimson senior swimmers compete, including Emily Wilson, who fractured a bone in her hand just before the meet against Rutgers on Jan. 5. Harvard won nine events and swam the remaining three as exhibitions.Senior LeeAnn Chang got the ball rolling for the Crimson, teaming with juniors Lindsay Hart and Jaclyn Pangilinan, and freshman Alexandra Clarke to take the 400-yard medley relay in 3:54.39. Classmate Laurin Weisenthal led a Crimson sweep of the 1650-yard freestyle, winning in 17:25.76, with freshman Katie Faulkner and senior Kelly Blondin...
...rare, perfect synthesis of greenmarket and high tech. When cracked open, the thing spills out ludicrously egg-shaped and ridiculously soft, the yolk suspended between raw and cooked, the cloudy white freed from that slight rubberiness I never knew bothered me until I had an egg without it. David Chang, who drops one in his ramen at New York City's Momofuku, says one of his regulars calls it "a sexy egg." There are apparently a lot of ways to hit on a chef...