Reading room commemorating Iris Chang opens at San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall

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Reading room commemorating Iris Chang opens at San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall

STORY: Reading room commemorating Iris Chang opens at San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall DATELINE: Aug. 23, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:44 LOCATION: SAN FRANCISCO, U.S. CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. Various of the opening ceremony, visitors in the reading room 2. Iris Chang's mother Zhang Yingying in the reading room 2. SOUNDBITE (Chinese): JENNIFER CHEUNG, President of Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia STORYLINE: The San Francisco WWII Pacific War Memorial Hall has set up a reading room to commemorate the late Chinese-American writer Iris Chang, renowned for her books on history, including Japan's invasion of China. Chang, whose Chinese name was Zhang Chunru, was the author of "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II," a best-selling book published in 1997. With the book, she brought to light the horrifying atrocities known as "the Nanjing Massacre," committed by invading Japanese troops in the eastern Chinese city of Nanjing in 1937. More than 3

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