This new Chinese feature film about how the Japanese Imperial Army raped and razed Nanking in 1937 is relentless, masterful, and important. But it joins that class of movies—Shoah, The Sorrow and the ...

In the early winter of 1937, Japanese troops, having conquered Shanghai, moved on to envelop Nanking, then the capital of China. After a furious aerial bombardment, they entered the city virtually ...

"I really, really hate the Japanese. I was raped when I was 11 years old. I tried to commit suicide three times afterwards," said Zhang Xiuhong, 81. She was recalling the six-week-long Rape of Nanking ...

Prominent Chinese American author Iris Chang, whose international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking" resurrected the long-ignored atrocities by the Japanese military on Chinese civilians during World ...

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In the last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang’s 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This ...