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The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II

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Chang, Iris. 18 January 2012. " The Nazi Leader Who, in 1937, Became the Oskar Schindler of China." The Atlantic. A small group of Western businessmen and missionaries, the International Committee for the Nanjing Safety Zone, attempted to set up a neutral area of the city that would provide refuge for Nanjing’s civilians. The safety zone, opened in November 1937, was roughly the size of New York’s Central Park and consisted of more than a dozen small refugee camps. In reference to the photo that shows women and children walking across a bridge with Japanese soldiers, she wrote: Iris Chang committed suicide. I can't help wondering if doing the research for this book didn't create or deepen her depression. She was an obviously passionate person and turning that passion loose on uncovering what really happened in Nanking in December 1937 must have shook her deeply.

John Rabe, who "never conducted a systematic count and left Nanking in February," estimated 50,000 to 60,000; and On November 9, 2004, at about 9 a.m., Chang was found dead in the driver's seat of her Oldsmobile Alero car by a Santa Clara Valley Water District employee on a rural road south of Los Gatos, California and west of State Route 17, in Santa Clara County. Investigators concluded that Chang had shot herself through the mouth with a revolver. At the time of her death, she had been taking the medications Depakote and Risperdal to stabilize her mood. [19]

a b c d e "Iris Chang's Letter to the San Francisco Chronicle". IrisChang.net. Archived from the original on 2011-02-23 . Retrieved 2007-07-21. Kamen, Paula (2007). Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind. Da Capo Press. ISBN 9780306817250. The author presents her historical narrative from three perspectives: the Japanese soldiers who carried it out, the Chinese civilians and soldiers who endured it, and a group of Europeans and Americans who refused to abandon the city and the innocent victims. Through these perspectives, Chang provides the reader with important information and first-hand accounts of what actually happened. One of Chang’s ideas that stands out in my mind is that human beings are capable of the worst kind of inhuman behavior under certain circumstances. I find this argument to be of particular value because it can be used as an essential question or big idea for teaching World History students about genocide, a topic in the Virginia Modern World History curriculum which explores the motives for and effects of genocide. It can also provide a starting point for teaching about Japan’s militaristic culture and how it fostered in the Japanese soldier a total disregard for human life that led to other appalling atrocities during World War II. I can use sections from the book to provoke students to think about and reflect on the big idea. I could also assign students to research first-hand accounts from survivors and/or witnesses who were mentioned in Chang’s book to allow students to recognize and reflect on the various perspectives of the tragedy. In the US, a Chinese garden in Norfolk, Virginia, which contains a memorial to Minnie Vautrin, added a memorial dedicated to Chang, including her as the latest victim of the Nanjing Massacre, and drawing parallels between Chang and Vautrin, who also took her own life. [55] Vautrin exhausted herself trying to protect women and children during the Nanjing Massacre and subsequently during the Japanese occupation of Nanjing, finally suffering a nervous breakdown in 1940. She returned to the US for medical treatment, committing suicide a year later. [20] Editions [ edit ] English

Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. I sensed suddenly threats to my own life: an eerie feeling that I was being followed in the streets, the white van parked outside my house, damaged mail arriving at my P.O. Box. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. Sonni Efron of the Los Angeles Times opined that the bitter row over Iris Chang's book may leave Westerners with the misimpression that little has been written in Japan about the Nanjing Massacre, when in fact the National Diet Library holds at least 42 books about the Nanjing massacre and Japan's wartime misdeeds, 21 of which were written by liberals investigating Japan's wartime atrocities. In addition, Efron noted that geriatric Japanese soldiers have published their memoirs and have been giving speeches and interviews in increasing numbers, recounting the atrocities they committed or witnessed. After years of government-enforced denial, Japanese middle school textbooks now carry accounts of the Nanjing massacre as accepted truth. According to Efron, Japanese liberals alleged that the mistakes found in her book could undermine their endeavors, which include bringing the knowledge of the massacre to the Japanese public and pressuring the Japanese government into apologizing and atoning for the massacre. [32] The original version of a photograph used by Chang—the accuracy of the caption in the book is disputed [13] The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Basic Books. 21 November 1997. ISBN 978-0-465-06835-7.

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Iris Chang Memorial Fund (2008). The Denial and Its Cost: Reflections on the Nanking Massacre 70 Years Ago and Beyond: Best Essays from Iris Chang Memorial Essay Contest 2007. New York, NY: Cozy House Publisher. ISBN 9781593430801. Gergen, David, interviewer. 20 February 1998. " Iris Chang and the Forgotten Holocaust" (transcript). The NewsHour. US: PBS. Archived on 19 March 2012. Chang spent two years on research for the book. [5] She found source materials in the US, including diaries, films, and photographs of missionaries, journalists, and military officers who were in Nanjing at the time of the massacre. [11] :11 Additionally, she traveled to Nanjing to interview survivors of the Nanjing Massacre and to read Chinese accounts and confessions by Japanese army veterans. [13] Also, she incorporated the most recent work on the subject by Chinese and Chinese-American historians by including many disturbing photographs and a myriad of translated documents. [14] Whatever the course of postwar history, the Rape of Nanking will stand as a blemish upon the honor of human beings. But what makes the blemish particularly repugnant is that history has never written a proper end for the story."

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