Iris Chang
Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Changwas an American journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth28 March 1968
CountryChina
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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.
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