Iris Chang Autographs
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. 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. The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory.
Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, to a Taiwanese American family, as the daughter of university professors Ying-Ying Chang, (Chinese: 張盈盈; born 1940) and Shau-Jin Chang (Chinese: 張紹進; January 7, 1937 – January 25, 2025). Ying-Ying was born in Chongqing to parents originally from Guiyang, while Shau-Jin was born in Suqian. Both spent their early childhood in Chongqing, the capital of China at the time, due to the Second Sino-Japanese War on the eastern coast, with Ying-Ying's family having fled Nanjing from the invading Imperial Japanese Army three years before her birth. Chang's parents separately emigrated to Taiwan in 1949 and 1951 respectively, moving to the United States in 1962 after receiving scholarships at Harvard University.
Chang's English name was chosen to invoke both the Greek rainbow goddess Iris as well as the iris of the eye, while her Chinese name meant "something pure and innocent". She was born two weeks overdue and lived the first months of her life in housing provided by Princeton Hospital. In late 1969, after briefly living in Boulder, Colorado, for a physics workshop, the family relocated to Champaign–Urbana, Illinois, where her father had accepted a teaching position at the University of Illinois. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanjing massacre, from which her maternal grandparents escaped. When she tried finding books about the subject in the Champaign Public Library, she found there were none.
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Traded items with a signature of Iris Chang
The most expensive item with a signature of Iris Chang (Iris Chang (Signed) – The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War) was sold in April 2026 for $875.00 while the cheapest item ( THE RAPE OF NANKINGI: signed by Author Iris Chang) found a new owner for $12.00 in March 2021. The month with the most items sold (4) was June 2025 with an average selling price of $107.49 for an autographed item of Iris Chang. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in April 2026 with $875.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $19.99 was August 2017. In average, an autographed item from Iris Chang is worth $106.90.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Iris Chang were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | Iris Chang (Signed) – The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War | $875.00 |  |
 | Iris Chang THE RAPE OF NANKING The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Signed 1s | $403.98 | |
 | SIGNED! The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang (Hardcover) First Edition/12th, VG+ | $120.00 | |
| SIGNED! The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang (Hardcover) First Edition/14th Print | $89.99 | |
| SIGNED! The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang (Hardcover) First Edition/4th Print | $149.99 | |
| SIGNED! The Rape of Nanking - Iris Chang (Hardcover) First Edition/4th Print | $99.99 | |
| Signed: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang – 1998 First Edition 15th Printing | $155.99 | |
| The Chinese in America A Narrative History Signed Iris Chang 2003 Hardcover DJ | $150.00 | |
| The Chinese in America Iris Chang 2003 HCDJ Signed 1st Edition Asian American | $106.90 | |
| The Chinese in America Iris Chang 2003 HCDJ Signed 1st Edition Asian American | $106.90 | |
| The Rape of Nanking Iris Chang - SIGNED First Edition/Later Printing | $135.00 | |
| The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang (SIGNED, Trade Paperback, 2nd Printing, 1998) | $300.00 | |
| The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang - SIGNED First Edition/14th Printing [RF3a] | $115.00 | |
| The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang Hardcover 1997 First Edition Autographed copy | $39.00 | |
| The Rape of Nanking, Iris Chang, signed 1st edition, 4th printing | $124.90 | |
