Iris Chang Audio & Video

In December 1937, in the capital of China, one of the most brutal massacres in the long annals of wartime barbarity occurred.....

Iris Chang, author of Thread of the Silkworm and The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, an account of Japanese war crimes in Nanking, China, speaks about her latest book, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.

Author of three books and many articles and columns, Chang's most famous work was her controversial 1997 book, "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II," which described one of the war's worst atrocities.

Author Iris Chang explores the impact on American history by Chinese immigrants over the last 150 years.This is a look at the successes and failures of the American democratic experience as well as the lessons learned by Chinese immigrants that are still relevant today.