It’s the birthday of “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”: Iris Chang

It’s the birthday of “The Woman Who Wouldn’t Forget”: Iris Chang

Iris Chang’s research into the atrocities committed by the Japanese on the Chinese people – particularly Chinese women – during the “rape of Nanking” in 1937 – much of it dug out of buried archives and brought to light for the first time – was in service of her eventual book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. The rape of Nanking really was “forgotten” because the Japanese wanted it forgotten. They would refer to it as…