On November 9, 2004, Iris Chang killed herself with a handgun on the side of an interstate highway in California.
Nineteen years later, we can still remember her and her book.
张纯如 Iris Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese-American writer and historian whose ancestral home was Xindu Street, Huaiyin District, Huai‘an City, Jiangsu Province.
Iris Chang is a second-generation Chinese American born in New Jersey. Iris Chang is noted for her use of novel and unique methods to illustrate Chinese life in China and the United States, revealing little-known important historical materials of Chinese history and Chinese immigrant history in the United States, through books such as ‘Qian Xuesen's Biography’, ‘The Rape of Nanking’ and ‘The Chinese in America.’
In particular, ‘The Rape of Nanking’ published in 1997 describes the rape, torture, and murder of large numbers of Chinese civilians in Nanjing by the fascist Japanese army. The book was listed as recommended reading by the New York Times and named by the Book Review as one of the best books of the year.
She is best known for her English historical book ‘The Rape of Nanking’ which broke into the New York Times bestseller list within a month and was named the most beloved book of the year; William Kirby, chairman of the history department at Harvard University, believes that it is the first book in English in all of human history to fully study the Nanjing Massacre.
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