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Iris Shun-Ru Chang (traditional Chinese: 張純如; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) 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.
Florence Fang (Chinese: 方李邦琴; born 1933/1934) is a Chinese-American businesswoman, publisher, and philanthropist active in the San Francisco area.She is the former owner of the San Francisco Examiner and other media titles and has been a fund-raiser for the Republican Party.
A woman who was hiking on a popular trail near San Francisco Bay died on Sunday after authorities said she tripped and fell to her death 50-feet below a cliff.
Tsen Shui Fang was one of her most trusted assistants. Together, and with a small Chinese staff, they transformed the women’s college into a refugee camp for women and children. Despite personal risk, these two women protected over 10,000 refugees in the camp they established, originally designed to house only 2,750. [7]
During the Nanjing Massacre, Wilson was the main surgeon responsible for treating the victims of the ongoing atrocities (although several nurses were still available) and, along with John Rabe and Minnie Vautrin, was instrumental in the establishment of the Nanking Safety Zone, which sheltered more than 200,000 people within its confined walls.
Nur Aisyah Binte MD Akbar, 39, and her husband, Abdul Rauf Bin Mohd Said, 41, stopped along the park’s Beacon Hill Trail to take photos near a cliff’s edge when the woman “lost her footing ...
A missing 72-year-old man is suspected to have gone overboard a cruise ship outside San Francisco early Monday, according to the cruise line and local authorities.
Wilhelmina "Minnie" Vautrin (September 27, 1886 – May 14, 1941) was an American missionary, diarist, educator and president of Ginling College.A Christian missionary in China for 28 years, she became known for caring for and protecting at least 10,000 Chinese refugees during the Nanjing Massacre in China, during which she kept a now-published diary, [1] at times even challenging the Japanese ...