Iris Chang

[pynchonoid]

Her death is rippling through  the SF Bay Area; my
wife didn't know her, but knows people in the local
Chinese community who did.

Before she wrote The Rape of Nanking, she wrote a book
about the Chinese missile expert who had initially
learned his stuff from the German rocket program,
Tsien Hsue-shen; we know people in China who knew him.
 The book is called _Thread of the Silkworm_.  I
posted on this some time ago, after I found and read
the book, it's good and many of you will like it, I
expect.

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465006787/qid=1100194980/sr=2-3/ref=pd_ka_b_2_3/102-4231676-5410525

--- davemarc <davemarc at panix.com> wrote:

> Years ago we discussed Iris Chang's The Rape of
> Nanking. I'm sorry to note
> that there are reports that she has committed
> suicide. I read the book and
> saw her speak once--I found her to be earnest and
> dedicated in trying to
> find recognition and justice for victims of
> brutality.
> 
>
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/11/11/MNGB59PKL01.D
> TL
> 
> d.
> 
> 

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