Birth Name:

Iris Shun-Ru Chang

Female

Birth Date:

Thu, Mar 28, 1968

Time of Birth:

01:12 PM

Place of Birth:

Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Age:

56

Zodiac Sign:

Aries

Astrology Data:

Sun

8°

Ari

8'

Moon

5°

Ari

58'

Asc

8°

Leo

20'

MC

26°

Ari

29'

About Iris Chang

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was a Taiwanese-American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• IrisChang.net — the official home page of Iris Chang

• Guide to the Iris Chang Papers at the California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives of the University of California at Santa Barbara

• Inventory of the Iris Chang papers at the Hoover Institution Archives of Stanford University. The PDF link leads to the detailed listing called: "Inventory of the Iris Chang papers, 1877-2007" (Collection No. 2004C22: 403 manuscript boxes, 4 cubic foot boxes, 5 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder, occupying 177.6 linear feet, acquired by the collection posthumously in 2004, with a substantial increment in 2005, and an additional increment in 2011)

• Inventory of the Iris Chang Papers -Alumni Records at the University of Illinois. Clicking the PDF link will lead to the document: "Iris Chang Papers 1937-1938, 1981-1990, 1996-2003" (Collection No. 26/20/122: 17 boxes, 3.4 cubic feet, acquired May 24, 2002). As well there is an additional listing for a second Academic collection for the periods 1937-1938, 1981-1990, 1998 & 2002 (Collection No. 26/20/122, 2.3 cubic feet, 3 boxes)

• Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia — a federation of NGOs whose mission was to educate the world about the unrecognized wartime horrors committed by Japan in the Pacific theater

• Appearances on C-SPAN

• "Nightmare in Nanking", an essay by Sue De Pasquale about Chang's book The Rape of Nanking, Humanities and the Arts, Johns Hopkins Magazine

• Iris Chang Memorial Fund - The fund is committed to carrying out Iris Chang's unfinished dreams and preserving her legacy

• Iris Chang at Find a Grave

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Iris Chang

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Iris Chang: Sun 8 Aries, Moon 5 Aries, Mercury 15 Pisces, Venus 16 Pisces, Mars 0 Taurus, Jupiter 26 Leo, Saturn 14 Aries, Uranus 26 Virgo, Neptune 26 Scorpio, Pluto 21 Virgo, Asc 8 Leo, Mc 26 Aries, Sun Conjunct Moon, Moon Trine Ascendant, Sun Trine Ascendant, Mercury Conjunct Venus, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Mercury Semi Square Mars, Mercury Semi Sextile Saturn, Venus Semi Square Mars, Venus Semi Sextile Saturn, Venus Opposition Pluto, Mars Trine Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Midheaven, Jupiter Sesquiquadrate Saturn, Jupiter Semi Sextile Uranus, Jupiter Square Neptune, Jupiter Trine Midheaven, Uranus Sextile Neptune, Uranus Conjunct Pluto, Uranus Quincunx Midheaven, Neptune Quincunx Midheaven, Pluto Semi Square Ascendant

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