Remembering Iris Chang — Cupertino, CA

Ignatius Ding (left), executive vice-president of the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of WWII in Asia, and Christina Leung, board member of the Alliance for Preserving the Truth of the Sino-Japanese War, visit the grave of writer Iris Chang, an American journalist best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Cupertino, California, on Monday. That day marked the 48th anniversary of Chang’s birth. She died on Nov 9, 2004. Michelle Cen / CHINA DAILY