- Son: Christopher.
- Was considered one of the nation's leading young historians and was a human rights activist.
- Author and historian; specialized in east Asian history.
- She was only 25 when she wrote her first book "Thread of the Silkworm".
- Interred at Gate of Heaven Cemetery, 22555 Cristo Ray Dr., Los Altos, CA. Cemetery location is approximately 40 miles south of San Francisco, CA.
- Her international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking" stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for several months.
- Received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Illinois in 1989. After working briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and "The Chicago Tribune", she earned a master's degree from the writing program of Johns Hopkins University in 1991. She published her first book, "Thread of the Silkworm" (Basic Books, 1995), when she was just 27. It told the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, a Chinese-born scientist deported from the US during the "Red Scare" era of right-wing Republican Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who later founded that country's intercontinental missile program. Another of her books was "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History," published in 2003 by Viking.
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