Past meeting
Iris Chang, The Rape Of Nanking
(3 ratings)
Meeting Description
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"We will meet in front of the theatre. If it's raining, we'll meet in the lobby. I will be wearing VERY bright pink or purple scarf."
--LaTrice
Details
We'll meet at 7:00pm. The movie begins at 7:10pm. See you there!
Run time: 100 min. | Canada |
Language: English and Mandarin with English subtitles
In July 1937 the Japanese Imperial Army, which already controlled a large section of northeastern China, launched an undeclared war against the Republic of China. Five months later its troops entered the capital city of Nanking and began raping and murdering its citizens in an orgy of violence that has few parallels in modern history. The Rape of Nanking was front page news when it happened but it was soon forgotten in the west until 1994 when a young Chinese-American writer named Iris Chang saw photographs of the atrocities at a conference in California. Chang, whose own grandparents had barely escaped the massacre, decided it was her responsibility to rescue this event from oblivion.
Lauretta
"Presentation of facts were good, flow of information was interesting. "