The author purpose was in spite, she wrote about this event out of rage, she implies just how awful these massacres and raping’s were while at the same time providing knowledge to the readers. The history surrounding this book is all based around an even that happened shortly before the start of WW2, to be more precise, it started on December 13, 1937 and then ended somewhere near January 1938. The author wanted to write about an almost forgotten history, Chang even described this event a second holocaust and as a child she was surprised to find that there was hardly any information about these massacres. It is clear that this book was not intended to just one audience but to the general, after all, this is history, something that people deserve the right to know about regardless of it was their own country history or not because at the end of the day, in a way it is our history as well. Chang has long known about this tragedy ever since she was a child, she describes being told oral stories from her parents…