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Iris Chang
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IRIS CHANG - The Rape of
Nanking Docu-Drama
Iris
Chang has been a respected humanitarian, outstanding
journalist and advocate for justice. This docudrama
portrays Iris Chang’s courage and unfaltering conviction
to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves,
while providing an accurate historical account of the
1937 Nanking Massacre. The “Rape of Nanking,” as the
massacre was called, was front-page news when it
happened, but was soon forgotten in the west, amid the
subsequent events of WWII.
The story starts in 1994 when Iris Chang saw an exhibit
of photographs of the atrocities at a conference, and
undertook to rescue this event from oblivion. Over the
next three years, she researched and wrote a book that
became a highly praised best-seller. The book also
ignited a firestorm of controversy in Japan, where many
prominent people continue, to this day, to deny that the
Japanese Imperial Army committed war crimes during WWII.
 The film obtained full co-operation from Iris Chang’s
parents who provided valuable information about their
beloved daughter. A research team reviewed many archives
on the Nanking Massacre and Iris Chang, and uncovered
more than 200 boxes of Iris Chang’s research work and
archives at the Hoover Institute. The research team was
also able to obtain the original video tapes taken by
Iris of survivors while she was in Nanking, and the
original films taken by Missionary, John McGee, during
the Massacre. The production team found and interviewed
numerous survivors in Nanking, as well as former
Japanese soldiers, right-wing revisionists, and peace
activists in Japan.
The television premiere of Iris Chang – the Rape of
Nanking aired on Canada’s History Channel on December
13, 2007 – the 70th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre.
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