Iris Chang
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In December 1937, the Japanese army swept into the ancient city of Nanking. Within weeks, more than 300,000 Chinese civilians were systematically raped, tortured, and murdered—a death toll exceeding that of the atomic blasts of Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined. Using extensive interviews with survivors and newly discovered documents, Iris Chang has written what will surely be the definitive history of this horrifying episode. The Rape of Nanking...
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Traces the history of the Chinese in the United States over the course of 150 years, examining the reasons why people chose to leave China, discussing the challenges they encountered in America, and telling the stories of individual men and women who left their country to make a new life in the U.S.