SAN JOSE, Calif. - Before San Jose author Iris Chang’s book "The Rape of Nanking" was published in 1997 – few in the West knew about the atrocities in the former Chinese capital during the outbreak of ...

It’s been a long and sometimes difficult journey, but San Jose is set to open Iris Chang Park in North San Jose on Saturday morning, the 15th anniversary of her death. The 2.6-acre park near Montague ...

A cool winter sun shone in a cloudless blue sky as some 600 mourners gathered at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in the Los Altos hills Friday morning to honor the life of author Iris Chang. Floral ...

LOS GATOS, CALIF. - Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, was found dead in her car of a ...

Ying-Ying Chang, intro. by Richard Rhodes. Pegasus (Norton, dist.), $29.95 (448p) ISBN 978-1-60598-172-7 Why did the brave, brilliant author of The Rape of Nanking, a groundbreaking study of Japan's ...

SAN JOSE — Not far from where best-selling Chinese-American author Iris Chang lived before she died in 2004, a vacant plot near an apartment-lined street in North San Jose that was planned to ...

The book case in my childhood bedroom contained worlds far from my own. There was my volume of folk tales from the Childcraft encyclopedia series, along with an illustrated Bible. Sandwiched between ...

Larry talks with author Paula Kamen about her new book, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of An Extraordinary Mind that discusses the events that lead to the suicide of journalist ...

I miss Iris Chang. When she committed suicide in November, 2004, I felt like I'd lost a sister, and the world had lost an important leader. Now, we all have the opportunity to know Iris through the ...

Hagiography fails to undermine a story too powerful to be hidden or muted in "Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking." Hagiography fails to undermine a story too powerful to be hidden or muted in “Iris Chang ...

I miss Iris Chang. Though I never met her, her life, her presence, her words, deeply affected me and many others around the world. When she committed suicide in November, 2004, I felt like I'd lost a ...