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Published: 16 Sep 2021
Meet the Composer: Shuying Li
Meet Shuying Li, a 2021 Discovery Grant recipient from the Opera Grants for Women Composers program. Her opera When the Purple Mountains Burn explores two figures connected with the 1937 Nanking Massacre: Iris Chang, the Chinese American author of the 1997 best-selling book The Rape of Nanking, and Shiro Azuma, a Japanese soldier who openly admitted to participating in the massacre and other war crimes against the Chinese during World War II.