Home › Authors › Iris Chang Iris Chang b. 1968 – d. 2004 · 2 books Biography Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. - Wikipedia Books by Iris Chang Die Vergewaltigung von Nanking 1999 Thread of the Silkworm ('Zhong Thread of the Silkworm ('Zhong guo fei dan zhi fu-qian xue senzhi mi', in traditional Chinese, NOT in English) 1996