The poignant story of the life and death of world-famous author and historian Iris Chang, as told by her mother. Iris Chang's bestselling book, The Rape of Nanking, forever changed the way we view the Second World War in Asia. It all began with a photo of a river choked with the bodies of hundreds of Chinese civilians that shook Iris to her core. Who were these people? Why had this happened and how could their story have been lost to history? She could not shake that image from her head. She could not forget what she had seen. A few short years later, Chang revealed this "second Holocaust" to the world. The Japanese atrocities against the people of Nanking were so extreme that a Nazi party leader based in China actually petitioned Hitler to ask the Japanese government to stop the massacre. But who was this woman that single-handedly swept away years of silence, secrecy and shame? Her mother, Ying-Ying, provides an enlightened and nuanced look at her daughter, from Iris' home-made childhood newspaper, to her early years as a journalist and later, as a promising young historian, her struggles with her son's autism and her tragic suicide. The Woman Who Could Not Forget cements Iris' legacy as one of the most extraordinary minds of her generation and reveals the depth and beauty of the bond between a mother and daughter.
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The Woman Who Could Not Forget
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LiteratureTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Iris Chang: An Introduction By Richard Rhodes
- Foreword By Ignatius Y. Ding
- 1. The Shock
- 2. The Birth
- 3. Childhood
- 4. A Passion Emerges
- 5. The High-School Days
- 6. Standing Out in Crowds
- 7. Fresh Out of College
- 8. Starting Over at Twenty-Two
- 9. Struggles of a Young Writer
- 10. The Photos that Changed Her Life
- 11. The Biological Clock
- 12. The Breakthrough
- 13. Overcoming Obstacles
- 14. Becoming a Celebrity
- 15. A Roller-Coaster Life
- 16. Research on Chinese in America
- 17. Struggles for a Baby and a Movie
- 18. A New Book and a Son
- 19. The Breakdown
- 20. An Untimely Death
- Epilogue
- Postscript
- Notes and References
- Appendix
- Requiem for Iris Chang By Steven Clemons
- Image Gallery
- Acknowledgments
- Books Dedicated to Iris Chang
- Copyright
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