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IRIS CHANG, who died last week of an apparent suicide, once asked a profound question: How could a brutal massacre in a Chinese city in World War II, in which the Japanese army killed thousands of people?a death toll possibly even higher than that of the atomic bombings of...
DIED.IRIS CHANG, 36, American historian whose 1997 best seller The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II chronicled the grisly rape, torture and murder of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital in the late 1930s; of suicide; near Los...
A charmed, glamorous destiny seemed to await Mei-ling from the moment she was born into a remarkable family. (Her sister Soong Ching-ling would marry Sun Yat-sen, modern China's founder.) Their father, C.J. (Charlie) Soong, who had been virtually adopted by a group of Methodist evangelists in...
Chang says she believed she had "a personal obligation to write an honest history of Chinese America, to dispel the offensive stereotypes that had long permeated the U.S. news and entertainment media." She traces the lineage of such attitudes through 150 years of Chinese immigration. (America's first female Chinese...
Declared during a speech at a political-party function that estimates suggesting 300,000 civilians were massacred by the Japanese army in the Chinese city of Nanking in 1937 and 1938 were "pure fabrication, a big lie."