WRITER

Iris Chang

1968 - 2004

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Iris Shun-Ru Chang (traditional Chinese: 張純如; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author, 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Iris Chang has received more than 1,277,039 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Iris Chang is the 5,792nd most popular writer (down from 5,266th in 2019), the 8,968th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,362nd in 2019) and the 688th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.39

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Iris Chang ranks 5,792 out of 7,302. Before her are Raffaele La Capria, Marina Lewycka, Robert Sabatier, Kazimierz Wierzyński, Horacio Guarany, and Thomas Mofolo. After her are Natalena Koroleva, Robert Edmond Grant, Nambi Narayanan, Richard K. Morgan, Eduard Bass, and Fredric Wertham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Iris Chang ranks 290. Before her are Luke Goss, James Frain, Chae Shi-ra, Claudio Suárez, Elsa Zylberstein, and Dariusz Michalczewski. After her are Jason Donovan, Jill Hennessy, Rafael Alkorta, Andriy Kuzmenko, Wu'erkaixi, and Zacarias Moussaoui. Among people deceased in 2004, Iris Chang ranks 270. Before her are Guinn Smith, Carl Anderson, Raja Ramanna, Jean Graczyk, Mulk Raj Anand, and Alexey Korneyev. After her are Heinrich Mark, Frances Dee, Emlyn Hughes, Lennart Strand, Velimir Valenta, and Ugo Ferrante.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Iris Chang ranks 8,968 out of 20,380. Before her are Frank Pierson (1925), John Morton (1725), Valerie Harper (1939), Alberta Hunter (1895), John Canfield Spencer (1788), and Martin Klebba (1969). After her are Frank Buckles (1901), Marc Cherry (1962), Charles Lloyd (1938), Gary Holt (1964), Tammy Grimes (1934), and Judith O'Dea (1945).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Iris Chang ranks 688. Before her are Gardner Dozois (1947), Diana Der Hovanessian (1934), Daniel Pearl (1963), Steven Saylor (1956), Avram Davidson (1923), and Edward Abbey (1927). After her are Sarah Orne Jewett (1849), Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850), Ann Bannon (1932), Carol Shields (1935), Bess Meredyth (1890), and Chaz Bono (1969).

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