Ling Liu (’06) contributes to an article by TIME’s Tim Morrison on the battle in progress between two documentaries on the 70th anniversary of the Rape of Nanjing. Among the films they write about is the Sundance award-winner Nanking, co-produced by Violet Feng (’04)

In the last years of her life, her mother remembers, author Iris Chang wanted to make a movie. Chang’s 1997 best seller, The Rape of Nanking, had shone a spotlight on an infamous 1937 atrocity. This was the massacre of an estimated 260,000 people, and the rape of as many as 20,000 women, by Japanese troops occupying Nanjing (formerly Nanking), then the Chinese capital. The book spent 10 weeks on the New York Times best-seller list and made the 29-year-old a literary star. But Chang wanted to do more. “She firmly believed that a movie or a documentary film would get her message out more than the book,” says Ying-Ying Chang. Sadly, her daughter never got the chance. Iris Chang committed suicide in 2004, at the age of 36. “We were interviewed at the time and asked, ‘What was Iris’ last wish?’” recalls her mother. “And we said, ‘To have a movie made out of her book.’”

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