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This was the birth surname of an activist who danced in political one-woman street shows on UPenn’s campus before publicly self-immolating in 1996. An author with this surname, who frequently used the (15[1])phrase “The Power of One,” wrote a profile of an aerospace engineer who was the target of a smear campaign after co-founding Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A park in San Jose honors an author with this surname who is the dedicatee of R. F. Kuang’s grimdark fantasy The Poppy War (-5[1])and a time-travel story (15[1])by Ken (*) Liu. Hate mail and death threats resulted in the 2004 suicide (-5[1])at age 36 of that author with this surname, (10[2])who used her own (10[1])grandparents (10[1])and the diaries of (10[1])Minnie (10[1])Vautrin and John (10[1])Rabe (“RAH-buh”) as sources for a 1997 bestseller that alleges (10[1])thousands of mass murders were covered up (10[1])by Japan’s government. (10[1])For 10 points, give this surname of the historian who wrote The Rape of (10[1])Nanking, Iris. (10[1])■END■ (0[1])

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