The Last Fight of Nanjing’s Survivors

[Above: The vast wall of files in the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, one for each of the 300,000 victims of the massacre.] Photographer Amanda Mustard followed a long chain of contacts and helpers to arrive at her project on the survivors of the Nanjing Massacre. It started with her high school history teacher, who led her to read The Rape of Nanking by the late Iris Chang, whose mother would later help Mustard break down barriers and locate a handful of the last survivors of one of the most br…