Media Praise For The Rape of Nanking
"Something beautiful, an act of justice, is occurring in America today concerning something ugly that happened long ago and far away
Because of Chang's book, the second rape of Nanking is ending."
-- George Will.
"In her important new book, 'The Rape of Nanking,' Iris Chang, whose own grandparents were survivors, recounts the grisly massacre with understandable outrage."
-- Orville Schell in The New York Times.
"A crushing indictment of the Japanese army's behavior."
-- Atlantic Monthly.
"The first comprehensive examination of the destruction of this Chinese imperial city
Ms. Chang, whose grandparents narrowly escaped the carnage, has skillfully excavated from oblivion the terrible events that took place."
-- The Wall Street Journal.
"A powerful new work of history and moral inquiry. Chang takes great care to establish an accurate accounting of the dimensions of the violence."
-- Chicago Tribune.
"For giving voice to their terrifying and crippling experience and for writing this timely remembrance of those who did not live to tell about it, Chang has joined the heroes of Nanking in a great service to humanity and history."
-- The Journal Inquirer.
"Stomach-turning, tear-wrenching, thoroughly riveting."
-- Baltimore Sun.
"Compelling in its emotional breadth, impressive in its intellectual width. From the first page, it seizes hold of your emotional and intellectual centers and will not loosen its grip until the last page, if even then."
-- Ventura Star.
"Chang reminds us that however blinding the atrocities in Nanking may be, they are not forgettable - at least without peril to civilization itself."
-- Detroit News.
"Compelling account of a horrendous episode that, until recently, has been largely forgotten...Animals do not behave the way the Japanese troops of the Imperial Army behaved."
-- Philadelphia Inquirer.
"The story that Chang tells is almost too appalling for words...a carefully documented cry of moral outrage."
-- Houston Chronicle.
"A story that Chang recovers with raw urgency...an important step towards recognition of this tragedy."
-- San Francisco Bay Guardian.
"A compelling, agonizing chronicle."
-- Publisher's Weekly.
