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An Evening with Iris Chang

Author of The Chinese in America: a Narrative History and the award-winning Rape of Nanking.

Tuesday Oct.14, 2003

7:30 p.m.

SCOTT THEATRE

3505 W. Lancaster Ave.,

FORT WORTH CULTURAL DISTRICT

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Join the Asian American Journalists Association and the Star-Telegram for a conversation with one of America's leading historians, hosted by Star-Telegram books editor Jeff Guinn, and stay after for a book signing.

"Maybe the best young historian we've got, because she understands that to communicate history, you've got to tell the story in an interesting way. She uses those vital storytelling rhythms.'' -- Stephen Ambrose, speaking of Iris Chang, 2001

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NEWS RELEASE - Sept. 3, 2003

INFORMATION: SCOTT NISHIMURA, (817) 390-7808

LEADING HISTORIAN IRIS CHANG WILL APPEAR IN FORT WORTH

FORT WORTH - Join the Asian American Journalists Association and Fort Worth Star-Telegram for a conversation with Iris Chang, one of America's leading historians.

Chang is bestselling author of The Rape of Nanking: the Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, an international and controversial bestseller that chronicled the slaughter and torture of 300,000 Chinese by the Japanese during World War II.

Her ground-breaking new book, The Chinese in America: a Narrative History, is out this year from Viking Penguin publishers. It follows the mass Chinese emigration to America over the last 150 years, the roles the immigrants have played in the development of America from the Gold Rush, the prominence many have achieved as business leaders, scientists, teachers, and public officials, and the challenges they still face in maintaining cultural ties and assimilating into their communities. It's a story that stretches from the men who left families behind to toil in California's gold fields, to the tens of thousands of newly adopted infant girls who arrive in America every year, and the embarrassing case of the scientist Wen Ho Lee, suspected of espionage, but never prosecuted.

The late historian Stephen Ambrose has called Chang ``maybe the best young historian we've got, because she understands that to communicate history, you've got to tell the story in an interesting way. She uses those vital storytelling rhythms.''

Chang will discuss her work and passion for history and social justice during an interview hosted by Star-Telegram Books Editor Jeff Guinn, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Oct. 14 at the Fort Worth Community Arts Center, W.E. Scott Theatre, 3505 W. Lancaster Ave., in Fort Worth's Cultural District. Chang will autograph copies of her books following the event.

Tickets are $18 in advance and $25 at the door. Admission for students is $12.50. Proceeds from ticket sales and book sales will benefit student scholarships and projects, news media leadership programs, and other community projects sponsored by the Asian American Journalists Association in Texas and nationally.

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For more information, including a special student promotional code and group discounts, contact Scott Nishimura at [log in to unmask], (817) 390-7808.

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ON IRIS CHANG: Iris Chang, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, holds a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. She worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.

Her first book, Thread of the Silkworm, told the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, father of the People's Republic of China's missile program.

Chang has received numerous honors, including the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award; Woman of the Year from the Organization of Chinese Americans; and an honorary doctorate from the College of Wooster in Ohio.

Her work has appeared in publications such as Newsweek, The New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. She lives with her family in San Jose, Calif.

ON AAJA: The American American Journalists Association is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information, visit www.aaja.org.

For more information on AAJA's An Evening with Iris Chang, contact:

Scott Nishimura, (817) 390-7808, [log in to unmask]

Andrea Ahles, (817) 390-7695, [log in to unmask]