Iris Chang

Iris Chang
Chang in c. 1985
Born	Iris Shun-Ru Chang (1968-03-28)March 28, 1968 Princeton, New Jersey, U.S.
Died	November 9, 2004(2004-11-09) (aged 36) Santa Clara County, California, U.S.
Occupation	Author, journalist, human rights activist
Alma mater	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (B.A.) Johns Hopkins University (M.A.)
Period	1995–2004
Subject	Chinese Americans, Nanjing Massacre, Qian Xuesen
Spouse	Bretton Douglas ​ (m. 1991)​
Children	1
Website
www.irischang.net

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang,^[1] and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking starring Olivia Cheng as Iris Chang.^[2] The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory.