Finding Iris Chang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finding Iris Chang write by Paula Kamen. This book was released on 2007-12-10. Finding Iris Chang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Iris Chang's mysterious suicide in 2004, at age thirty-six, didn't seem to make any sense. She had more to live for than anyone, including fame, fortune, beauty, a husband, and child. Some even wondered if the controversial author of the Rape of Nanking had been murdered. Long-time friend Paula Kamen was among those left wondering what had gone so wrong. Seeking to reconcile the suicide with the image of Chang's “perfect” life, Kamen searched her own memory and scoured Chang's letters, diaries, and archival material to fill in the gaps of Chang's personal transformation-from awkward teen to homecoming princess in college, from “ex-shy person” to world-class speaker and international human rights pioneer-and later decline into mental illness and paranoia. A literary investigation of an important writer's journey, Finding Iris is a tribute to a lost heroine, a portrait of the real and vulnerable woman who inspired so many around the world.
Finding Iris Chang
Finding Iris Chang - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Finding Iris Chang write by Paula Kamen. This book was released on 2007-10-23. Finding Iris Chang available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A biography of the late Iris Chang by a long-time friend and confidante examines the life of the controversial author of "The Rape of Nanking," her decline into mental illness and paranoia, and her mysterious suicide at the age of thirty-six.
The Woman Who Could Not Forget
The Woman Who Could Not Forget - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Woman Who Could Not Forget write by Ying-Ying Chang. This book was released on 2012-07-01. The Woman Who Could Not Forget available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Rape of Nanking
The Rape of Nanking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Rape of Nanking write by Iris Chang. This book was released on 2014-03-11. The Rape of Nanking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II, "piecing together the abundant eyewitness reports into an undeniable tapestry of horror". (Adam Hochschild, Salon) In December 1937, one of the most horrific atrocities in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred. The Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking (what was then the capital of China), and within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians and soldiers were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered. In this seminal work, Iris Chang, whose own grandparents barely escaped the massacre, tells this history from three perspectives: that of the Japanese soldiers, that of the Chinese, and that of a group of Westerners who refused to abandon the city and created a safety zone, which saved almost 300,000 Chinese. Drawing on extensive interviews with survivors and documents brought to light for the first time, Iris Chang's classic book is the definitive history of this horrifying episode.
The Good Man of Nanking
The Good Man of Nanking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Good Man of Nanking write by John Rabe. This book was released on 2007-12-18. The Good Man of Nanking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Good Man of Nanking is a crucial document for understanding one of World War II's most horrific incidents of genocide, one which the Japanese have steadfastly refused to acknowledge. It is also the moving and awe-inspiring record of one man's conscience, courage, and generosity in the face of appalling human brutality. Until the recent emergence of John Rabe's diaries, few people knew abouth the unassuming hero who has been called the Oskar Schindler of China. In Novemgber 1937, as Japanese troops overran the Chinese capital of Nanking and began a campaign of torture, rape, and murder against its citizens, one man-a German who had lived in China for thirty years and who was a loyal follower of Adolph Hitler-put himself at risk and in order to save the lives of 200,000 poor Chinese, 600 of whom he sheltered in his own home.
