Iris Chang brought global attention to the truth of the Nanjing Massacre with her book The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, but faced defamation from Japanese right-wing groups. In our interview, Iris Chang's mother, Ying-Ying Chang, recounted one effort to counter this campaign. In 2016, she learned from a letter that Randy Hopkins, a retired American lawyer, had written a detailed article over 40 pages long, systematically refuting the smears against Iris Chang's work.

The two-part documentary Finding Iris Chang explores the life and legacy of a woman who devoted the latter years of her short life to exposing the truth about one of the darkest chapters in 20th century history. Inspired by her family’s experience during World War II, Chinese-American writer Iris Chang traveled across the United States to gather rare materials on the Nanjing Massacre, personally visited survivors in Nanjing, and uncovered a number of important historical documents, including the