# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/iris-chang
# Generated: 2026-09-07T18:48:30.698Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/iris-chang"
name: "Iris Chang"
slug: "iris-chang"
description: "Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanjing Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking starring Olivia Cheng as Iris Chang. The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory."
tagline: "Chinese-American journalist and author of historical books (1968–2004)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Portrait_photograph_of_Iris_Chang_from_the_1985_edition_of_the_U_and_I_yearbook_of_the_University_Laboratory_High_School_(Urbana%2C_Illinois).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1968-03-28"
deathDate: "2004-11-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  sourceConfidence:     70
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  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump