The controversey surrounding Iris Chang and The Rape of Nanking (in chronological order)
Metroactive News and Issues -- December 12, 1996"Breaking the Silence" by Ami Chen Mills, an article/interview that appeared online a full year before publication of The Rape of Nanking. The point of Chang's work is clearly stated in a large bold font at the top of the article, "Sunnyvale-based author Iris Chang gives voice to a new era of Chinese activism--much of it based in Silicon Valley--which may force Japan to confront its World War II atrocities, still largely unknown to the world a half-century later."
http://www.minorities-jb.com/asian/History/archives/massacre.html
"Silent No More The 'Forgotten Holocaust' of World War II Emerges from the Black Hole of History" by Ami Chen Mills. A short essay in which Iris Chang and The Rape of Nanking are referred to and given as a source of details concerning the Nanking atrocities. Several links to other Nanking atrocity sites are included at the end of the article.
Atlantic Unbound -- November 19, 1997
"A Barbarous Frenzy: New details about the Second World War's 'forgotten Holocaust'" by Jack Beatty. An online book review of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
CNN Interactive, World News - December 13, 1997
"Chinese city remembers Japanese 'Rape of Nanking'." Online news article on the 60th anniversary of the Nanjing atrocities.
Newpaper Reviews of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking
The Washington Post -- December 11, 1997 "The Forgotten Holocaust" by Ken Ringle
The New York Times -- December 14, 1997 "Bearing Witness" by Orville Schell
South China Morning Post -- December 13, 1997 "Documents back truth of 'Other Holocaust'" by Ian Wilson
Online NewsHour, February 20, 1998
Forgotten Holocaust. Transcript of David Gergen's interview with Iris Chang.
CND-Global, February 24, 1998
Transcript of a telephone interview with Iris Chang conducted by China News Digest.
Japanese translation of same by MASAKI Yoshiyuki
The Atlantic Monthly - April 1998
"The Horror" by David M. Kennedy. An online review of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
CND-Global, April 27, 1998
"Japan Criticizes Iris Chang's Book 'The Rape of Nanking'" by Ray ZHANG. Report, dated April 22, 1998, of Japanese Ambassador to the US Saitô Kunihiko's remarks about inaccuracies and misguided interpretations in Iris Chang's book.
Time Magazine May 11, 1998
"Fracas Follows Book About Nanking Atrocity." Reports that Iris Chang challenged Japanese Ambassador to the US Saitô Kunihiko to a televised debate after he questioned the veracity of her book The Rape of Nanking.
Japanese translation of same by MASAKI Yoshiyuki
Sankei Editorial June 16, 1998
"Editorial: Nanjing Incident: Foreign Ministry officials should not keep silent". Translation of an editorial from the Japanese newspaper Sankei in support of Research Group for a Democratic View of History, which held a news conference for foreign correspondents to challenge the claims of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
San Francisco Chronicle, July 26, 1998
"Wars of Memory" by Charles
Burress. The reviewer dutifully covers the highlights of Iris Chang's book and her activities, but unlike most media reporters, Burress points out that while Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking has attained a near canonical status among some, it also has been criticized, specifically by historians Hata Ikuhiko of Nihon University and David Kennedy of Stanford University.
Hata's Denial
"Iris Chang's 'The Rape of Nanking'is the height of grotesquerie full of countless fake photos" by Hata Ikuhiko. English translation of a Japanese historian's venomous attack on Iris Chang and her book which was published in Shokun. This translation carries the banner of the political action group Alliance in Memory of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre.
Japan Echo 25/4 (August 1998)
"The Nanking Atrocities: Fact and Fable" by Hata Ikuhiko; Section 2 of this article is an abridged translation of Hata's April 1998 article in Shokun "Nankin gyakusatsu 'shôko shashin' o kantei suru," [Appraising the 'Photographic Evidence' of the Nanking Massacre] reviews Chang's The Rape of Nanking. Although less vitriolic than the link above, in this review Hata discusses some of his major problems with Chang's book.
Japan Echo 25/4 (August 1998)
"The Nanking Massacre in Print: A Recent Bibliography." Lists articles and books dealing with the Nanking atrocities published in Japan 1995 to 1998.
Japan Echo 25/4 (August 1998)
"Japanese Textbook Treatment of the Nanking Massacre." Contains English translations of what Japanese history textbooks actually say about the Nanking atrocities of 1937-8.
Japan Times Online (Top News), August 18, 1998
"Focus: Nanjing Massacre can't shake ever-changing
spin." Notes the rekindled interest in the Nanking Massacre in Japan. Mentions three of the major Japanese players in the discussion: Fujiwara Akira, professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, Fujioka Nobukatsu of the University of Tokyo, and Hata Ikuhiko of Nihon University.
Info Culture Magazine
"Speaking for the Dead: The 1937 rape of Nanking that Iris Chang refuses to forget". Canadian Broadcasting Company online culture magazine's link page devoted to Iris Chang. Several of the links are now dead.
Salon Magazine Book Review January 11, 1999 also available at CNN.com
"The Rape of Nanking" by Adam Hochschild. An online review of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
Infoculture Magazine, January 19, 1999
A 12 minute Real Player video interview with Iris Chang about the Nanking atrocities of 1937 by a Canadian Broadcasting Company online culture magazine.
Sankei Editorial, February 21, 1999
"Editorial: The Rape of Nanking: Let's persistently call for corrections". Translation of an editorial from the Japanese newspaper Sankei. Reports on the cancellation of plans to publish the Japanese translation of Iris Chang's bestseller The Rape of Nanking and iin light of Chang's refusal, insists that "corrections be made in the book, which was designed to distort the facts and undermine Japanese pride."
Tokyo Weekender - April 4, 1999
"Jack Seward LOOKS at books on Japan." Contains a short caustic review of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking by Jack Seward.
Japan Times Online (Top News), May 20, 1999
"Author blamed for Nanjing book cancellation." Report why publisher abandoned plans to publish the Japanese translation of Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking.
Salon Magazine Book Log May 25, 1999 also available at CNN.com
"Japanese denial and 'The Rape of Nanking'" by Laura Miller. An interview with Iris Chang conducted by e-mail after the announcement by the Japanese publishing company Kashiwa Shobô that they had canceled plans to release of The Rape of Nanking in Japanese translation.
Book Review: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
A thoroughly critical review by T. M. Kelly. The reviewer questions Chang's skills as a writer and researcher, the popular media's uncritical acceptance of her book, and the competence of the editors at Basic Books. Moreover, he presents evidence of plagiarism in Chang's use of Japan's Imperial Conspiracy by David Bergamini.
Other sites concerned with Nanking atrocities (in alphabetical order)
Japanese Imperialism and the Massacre in Nanjing
Translated from the Chinese by Robert Gray and online since February 1996, this document is a translation of excerpts from a classified study conducted at Nanjing University in 1962 and brought to the US in 1995. The photos imbedded in the translation are not part of the original Chinese document, but were provided by the China News Digest Nanjing Massacre Photo Archive. Interestingly, many of these same photos are also reproduced in Iris Chang's The Rape of Nanking. The translator's endnotes show that the authors make extensive use of H.J. Timperley's The Japanese Terror in China (London, 1938). On several occasions the translator was not able to locate passages the authors attributed to Timperley's book and on other occasions the translator points out misrepresentations, factual errors, and mistranslations. This site carries the banner of political action group Alliance in Memory of the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre and is hosted by China New Digest.