Holocaust Chang Summary

The author purpose was in spite, she wrote about this event out of rage, she implies just how awful these massacres and raping’s were while at the same time providing knowledge to the readers. The history surrounding this book is all based around an even that happened shortly before the start of WW2, to be more precise, it started on December 13, 1937 and then ended somewhere near January 1938. The author wanted to write about an almost forgotten history, Chang even described this event a second holocaust and as a child she was surprised to find that there was hardly any information about these massacres. It is clear that this book was not intended to just one audience but to the general, after all, this is history, something that people deserve the right to know about regardless of it was their own country history or not because at the end of the day, in a way it is our history as well. Chang has long known about this tragedy ever since she was a child, she describes being told oral stories from her parents …show more content…
It stuck with her and as she got older, she decided to research what happened but to her surprise, there is nothing describing theses events that she had heard about for such a long time, she took it up herself to find more information; meeting with the victims and historians. At the time, in 1997, there had been two other books that had been published about this topic however, none of these books were in english, Chang took it up to herself to write a book about these digesting events. She describes the events that happened before Japan invaded Nanking all the way to the end, that of course being towards the end of the Second Sino-Japanese War. Chang had included photographs, translated diary entries, and maps to help describe just what was happening during these awful