After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

"Statement of Iris Chang" stated:

I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. ISBN 978-0-465-00678-6. If it is a politically motivated work of partisan propaganda it is successful to a certain degree.

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (simplified Chinese: 张纯如; traditional Chinese: 張純如; pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28 1968 – November 9 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She committed suicide on November 9 2004. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre The Rape of Nanking.