Original sentence: Her second book, the best selling The Rape of Nanking (1997), alleged that the Japanese soldiers killed innocent civilians and disarmed soldiers.In fact, pictures in the book have never been proven as the part of Nanking Massacre but many of them were fabricated and misattributed.Iris Shun-Ru Chang (Traditional Chinese: 張純如, Simplified Chinese: 张纯如; Pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968–November 9, 2004) was a political activist supported by the Chinese government, and she was also a freelance journalist.Some people, including Chang herself, allege that she is not a trained but historian.The Chinese government paid for her research in China regarding the book.The book gained the Western people's attention despite the fact that the accuracy of the book is questioned
Edited sentence: After publication of the book, she campaigned to persuade the Japanese government to apologise for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation.Her second book, the best selling The Rape of Nanking (1997), documents the massacre of Chinese by Japanese soldiers during World War II, and includes interviews with victims.Iris Shun-Ru Chang (Traditional Chinese: 張純如, Simplified Chinese: 张纯如; Pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968–November 9, 2004) was a freelance Chinese American historian and journalist.The book attracted both praise from some quarters and criticism from others of alleged inaccuracies