‘Power of One’: Situating the ‘Iris Chang Phenomenon’ in the National/Transnational Remembering of the Nanjing Massacre
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DOI: 10.1080/10670564.2024.2360657
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article examines the ‘Iris Chang phenomenon’—the hypervisibility of Chang in the national/transnational remembering of the Nanjing Massacre—which recalls memories dialectically to become relevant to Chinese socio-political and cultural transformations. It mainly investigates why… read more here.
Keywords: national transnational; iris chang; transnational remembering; history ... See more keywords
Narrativizing trauma, activating awareness: Iris Chang’s The Rape of Nanking and its afterlives
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DOI: 10.1080/14649373.2019.1681080
Abstract: ABSTRACT When Iris Chang published The Rape of Nanking in 1997, exactly sixty years after the Nanjing Massacre, the subtitle The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, called attention to one of the greatest human… read more here.
Keywords: rape; rape nanking; chang rape; iris chang ... See more keywords