The Rape of Nanking, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Signed Copy. Inscribed by the author to a friend on half title page. As new in as new dust jacket. Profusely illustrated This a nice clean copy, the spine is solid, The text is clean and pages are not torn or dirty. We provide fast and reliable shipping service. We started to sell on the internet in 1998. We ship from California. All our books are guaranteed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Second Printing [stated]. xvii, [3], 427, [1] pages. Illustrations. Notes and References. The author was Iris Chang's mother. Inscribed with short quotations on free end page, signed in English and Chinese and dated. Introduction by Richard Rhodes. Foreword by Ignatius Y. Ding. Requiem by Steven Clemons. A moving, illuminating memoir about the life of world-famous author and historian, Iris Chang, as told by her mother. Iris Chang's best-selling 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. 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. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American author and journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. Her second book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997), was published on the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre, and was motivated in part by her own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. Her second book remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for 10 weeks. Based on the book, an American documentary film, Nanking, was released in 2007. The book attracted both praise for exposing the details of the atrocity, and criticism because of alleged bias and inaccuracies. After publication of the book, Chang campaigned to persuade the Japanese government to apologize for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Unknowen (illustrator). 2nd Edition. 2nd Expanded Edition 1998, Purple cloth hardcover with gilt letters to the front board and spine, In the dust jacket, 319 page book. Text in English and Chinese . Illustrated with graphic black & white photos , from historical archives some never seen before. Most of the images where use in the war crimes trails of Japanese military & Government officials . This copy has a signed book plate by Shi Young at first title page ( quite scarce ). Condition : Near Fine / DJ is Very Good with edge rubs and light chipping. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Signed by Author(s). Book.