Title Type Publication date Author(s) Description; Document:The Mysterious Deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Iris Chang: article: 1 August 2011: The official cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot. Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. They advance new concepts in imaging, proteomics, drug discovery, and catalysis by drawing from core disciplines of inorganic, organic, and biological chemistry. She'd already spoken with Chang's widower, Brett Douglas,. They told of the time in grade school when Iris decided "if Dear Abby can do it -- I can do it," and she started her own advice column, writing questions and answers. Some of Changs friends blamed the relentless pace of her work. "Every day she seemed to have something new. "Iris wasn't prepared and her publisher wasn't prepared. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. Before dawn, Iris awoke and got into her car. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" It was later discovered that she had left behind three suicide notes each dated November 8, 2004. When Brett woke to find Iris gone early Monday morning, he called San Jose police, reporting that she was missing, on medication and a suicide risk. This was not her first visit. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Add to list Known for The Onedin Line 7.6 TV Series Samuel Onedin 1977-1980 32 eps Early Travellers in North America Books by Iris Chang The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II Iris Chang $ 3.99 - $ 16.98 The Chinese in America: A Narrative History Iris Chang $ 5.49 - $ 8.09 Thread of the Silkworm Iris Chang $ 6.89 - $ 24.05 You Might Also Enjoy Complete Novels Jane Austen from: $6.19 The Complete Father Brown Stories G.K. Chesterton A red tricycle and a jogging stroller flanked the front door. Upon his return to China, Tsien developed the Dongfeng missile program, and later the Silkworm missile, which was used by the Iraqi military during its war on Iran and against the United States-led coalitions during the Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Brett said, "It was, I think, 21 cities in 28 days. At Reed's Sport Shop one month after her death, the spot on the top shelf of the glass-topped case where Iris' gun had lain was still vacant. 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Most Popular Birthday Stars 2022. ", As Iris' good friend Barbara Masin said, "Those who are close to her did everything that they possibly could have done. She preferred to meet someone in each town who could introduce her to the veterans and their families. The result, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, out this month from Da Capo Press, details Changs celebrated and controversial career as a journalist and historical author as well as Kamens relationship with her. Her long-distance engagement to Brett entered its second year. Looking back, Chang said she thinks Iris was just a workaholic who needed a break, and should have slept and eaten more, instead of taking psychiatric drugs. ", Later, Iris challenged the Japanese ambassador to a debate on the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. She was easily hurt, though sometimes she didn't show it. . "Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. in champaign- urbana- 1985 courtesy mr and mrs chang, CHANG_rs1.jpg Author Iris Chang speaks at a panel at the twelfth annual conference of the Committee of 100, at the Waldorf-Astoria, in New York, Saturday, April 26, 2003. Doctors at Norton Hospital had diagnosed "brief reactive psychosis," her father said. Soon she exceeded the dreams of every student in the program by getting a book contract from a major publisher while still in school. Schell reviewed her book favorably in the New York Times. THEY ARE AT THE CHINESE AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER / CULTURE TO CULTURE FOUNDATION. The book signing will be held at Cupertino Community Hall on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Well known since its 1997 publication is the global best seller,The Rape of Nanking. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle. "Every single survivor I met was desperately anxious to tell his or her story," she later said. According to Brett Douglas, who married Iris . "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. My friends and I would joke about the obituary assignments at a paper being the stiffs page. I could never picture her having any kind of irony like that about her work., Kamen herself says that diving into the darker reaches of Changs life was frightening at first. According to the police report, Iris phoned a local gunsmith, an antique firearms specialist who did business from his home. Every suicide is the tragic terminus of a tangle of roads, a route unique as a thumbprint. Penzance, Cornwall, TR20. It's a shame these atrocities had to be happened in the hands of Japanese. In the fall of 1990, Iris took Finkbeiner's "Science Stories" course. Normally, Iris never did interviews alone. Chang, with a Ph. ", Her father patted the tabletop. Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Children: Christopher: Spouse: Bretton Douglas Related Document. "She was so driven," Brett said, "she just wouldn't take time off." View this record View. Her second book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997),[9] was published on the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre and was motivated in part by her own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. And that really took its toll on her, too.". Now, it becomes our treasure. Back in Illinois one year later, she committed suicide. "The stress of writing this book and living with this horror on a daily basis caused my weight to plummet," she said. The air was still, heavy with grief. Ms. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Anthony Meldahl, a supply sergeant with the Ohio National Guard who had admired Iris' work. Iris Chang is best known for two things: writing the explosive bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," and then killing herself. Isles Of Scilly, TR21. "She didn't like the idea that she was taking medicine," her father said. Both were born in mainland China. He and Iris were married in August 1991 in Champaign-Urbana. In 1991, Chang married Bretton Lee Douglas, a design engineer for Cisco Systems, whom she had met in college, and had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of her suicide. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. "We saw cartoons where she was portrayed as this woman with a great big mouth," Brett said. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang Th. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. [15], Iris Chang Park in San Jose, that opened in November 2019, is a municipal park dedicated to Chang. "But gradually, she became very depressed," said her father, adding that her doctor in California prescribed an additional medication, an antidepressant. The water district employee called his supervisor, who called 911. ", At the same time, torrents of hate mail came in, Brett said. Ying-Ying is a biochemist. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." Among her many television appearances was a memorable evening on "Nightline," where she was the only Asian and the only woman among a panel of China experts. Want to post on Patch? The book with both Chang's and Rhodes' names on its cover has sold more copies than expected and received positive reviews, including one in the Wall Street Journal, since its launch in May. los altos, ca - november 19: (l-r) brett douglas, husband of iris chang, walks behind a hearse carrying her body with her brother michael chang, mother ying-ying chang and father shau-jin chang during funeral services november 19, 2004 at the gate of heaven cemetery in los altos, california. It had been the largest U.S. Army surrender in history. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. "Yes!" In tribute to Chang, the survivors held a service at the Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall, around the same time as her funeral, held at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos, California on November 12, 2004. Soon she managed to call her mother. Meanwhile, they decided they had put their plans for a family on hold long enough. The cycle of mood shifts that distinguish the disease -- from manic highs to depressive lows -- differs with every sufferer. It was sort of scary as a journalist to be thinking, if this could happen to her and she supposedly had no history [of mental illness], and she was so much more put together than I am, just for me the question was how to survive our toxic topics. Iris Chang wrote those lines in 1978, when she was 10, . After her own years of research on the interplay of hormones and the brain, Kamen believes that Changs bipolar condition may have been exacerbated by her fertility treatments. At the time, she was several months into research for her fourth book, about the Bataan Death March. Speaking of the night they met, Brett said, "Iris was beautiful, vivacious -- and sober. Chang has written for numerous publications, such as the New York Times, Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, and has been featured by countless radio, television and print media, including Nightline, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, C-Span's Booknotes, and the front cover of Reader's Digest. . He was a happy baby, with his mother's jet-black hair. Born Iris Shun-Ru Chang, Mar 28, 1968, in Princeton, New Jersey; grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois; committed suicide, Nov 9, 2004, near Los Gatos, California; dau. Iris pushed herself "to be the best possible mother and the best possible writer," Brett said. They brought her home, and at first Iris responded well to rest and treatment. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. "It's baffling to me that the U.S. today has so little knowledge of the four months we held out," Martel told The Chronicle by telephone from his home in Wisconsin. We've seen a lot of suicides. [4] During her time in college she also worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, and wrote six front-page articles over the course of one year. Her parents saw her off that morning. She added one more reason when talking to Patchto help those who lost loved ones like herself heal. "Iris was impatient. Chang said she did some research on the psychiatric drugs and the antidepressants Iris took in the months between a temporary nervous breakdown and her suicide. First she thought it would be a couple of weeks" before she improved, "but we tried to convince her that it would be several months, because that is what the doctors said. But the nanny spoke only Mandarin. "It is because of these types of wording and the vagueness of such expressions that Chinese people, I think, are infuriated," was her reaction. 36 year-old iris chang, the prominent chinese american "I'd left a message -- I actually had business to talk about. Children Christopher Douglas Name Iris Chang: Born March 28, 1968Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. (1968-03-28) Alma mater Johns Hopkins University,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aps obter o Mestrado em Letras, pela Johns Hopkins University, dedicou-se carreira de escritora . So, in return for performing a short, Chaplinesque shuffle, he would be rewarded with a handful of scallions. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, when she was just 36 years old. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. He could see the travel was taking a toll on her. Ms. Chang received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Illinois in 1989. "She appeared to have done research." ". But that meant diving back into her Bataan Death March research. . "Though I had heard so much about the Nanking massacre as a child, nothing prepared me for these pictures -- stark black-and-white images of decapitated heads, bellies ripped open and nude women forced by their rapists into various pornographic poses, their faces contorted into unforgettable expressions of agony and shame. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. She just knows how to do things," he said, tenderly smoothing out a page. She was very depressed." I sensed suddenly threats to my own life: an eerie feeling that I was being followed in the streets, the white van parked outside my house, damaged mail arriving at my P.O. " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. Iris Shun-Ru Chang was a Chinese-American historian and journalist. "She was afraid of him when he showed up," Smith said. When you do not, you live not just by the day but by the minute. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. Iris had been haunted since childhood by the graphic stories she was told about Nanking. $1 Million. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana . Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! IRIS CHANG, Author, "The Rape of Nanking:" Well, in 1937, in December, the Japanese swept into the city of Nanking and within six to eight weeks, they had massacred more . "I wanted to give support to families that suffered the same kind of loss, and it really worked in that way. Once the Allies won the war, the story was forgotten. She worked at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before devoting He showed her how to load the gun and tried to give her basic safety and handling instructions. Chang, who lived in San Jose, shot herself to death Nov. 9 in her car, parked along a rural road south of Los Gatos. She knew that in California, she could purchase a relic immediately and avoid the 10-day waiting period necessary with other guns. He established an International Safety Zone in Nanking before the Japanese soldiers arrived from Shanghai. When, at 36, Chang shot herself in 2004 on an empty stretch. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. "Iris was suffering from clinical depression," she said, "and it deepened rapidly over a period of about three months. Families, too, have trouble coping. Ironically, the very condition that put her career on a slower track has also helped her avoid the emotional and physical burnout that the ambitious Chang experienced during her last year. By the time that was done, it was already eight years. Chang said she never took any antidepressants when devastated by Iris' death. He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. His daughter recalled that in telling Iris this story, he got terribly worked up. ", On her trip to China, she met with survivors from Nanking. Like others, Kamen had wondered if postpartum depression might have played a role in her mental decline. "Iris was so excited when she got the contract for the book," Brett said, recalling how obsessively she ferreted out material. But, her father said, "In spite of many sessions, Iris did not tell the therapist her deepest thoughts. Chang, with a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University, had a scientist's career until her retirement in 2002. Instead it offers the same meticulous attention to detail and thorough immersion in primary sources that distinguishes Changs exhaustively researched books, Thread of the Silkworm (1995), about an accused Chinese spy; The Rape of Nanking, published in 1997 to mark the massacres 60th anniversary; and the 2003 narrative history The Chinese in America. Stories about Chang's grandparents' harrowing escape were part of her family legacy and prompted her to embark on this ambitious project, for which she interviewed elderly survivors of the massacre and discovered thousands of rare documents in four different languages. ", Historian Iris Chang won many battles / The war she lost raged within, CHANG_rs11.jpg Author Iris Chang poses for a photograph, in New York, Sunday, April 27, 2003. Background Iris Chang was born on March 28, 1968, Princeton, New Jersey, to a family of Taiwan migrants. Success as an author made Iris Chang a public figure. Her third book, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History (2003),[11] is a history of Chinese Americans, that argues their treatment as perpetual outsiders by American society. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. "It's been too short.". That essay, How Iris Chang Became a Verb, serves as a graceful and insightful eulogy for the best-selling author, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a lonely stretch of road outside San Jose, California, in November 2004. Stress does not cause mental illness, but it can worsen the symptoms, doctors say. Sluggishness is a common side effect of Depakote, because it subdues the manic phase of bipolar disorder by depressing the central nervous system. Iris Chang's coffen was carried to a waiting hearst and a short drive to the burial site at the cemetary. After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. Se cas con Bretton Lee Douglas, con quien tuvo a su hijo Christopher, y vivi en San Jos (California), donde sufri una profunda depresin que le llev al suicidio. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. "We are a very close family. But just in time, Iris changed the subject, prompting him to tell a lighter story. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. There's a stigma within the culture about accessing care, because then people will think there is something wrong with you and your family. Filha de pais chineses que emigraram de Taiwan para os EUA, Iris Chang nasceu em Princeton ( New Jersey ), mudando-se para Illinois, onde graduou-se em Jornalismo pela University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, em 1989. "I thought it would be inspirational. But today Christopher is healthy. In the backseat, a teddy bear was tucked into the car seat of her 2-year-old son, Christopher. Her mother hoped Iris would take on a lighter topic for her next book, especially with a baby in the house. News of her suicide brought forth a chorus of disbelief. Comedy writer who worked on Maureen Lipman's Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon's Week and Dave Podmore. As a guest speaker at colleges she often cited Changs career as an example of how to think big; she encouraged students to just decide what you want and go get itto the point of being naive. But while Chang was undeniably brilliant and hardworking, her undisguised ambition turned off as many people as it charmed. Iris Chang has a total of 1 spouses, Spouse:Brett Douglas(1991- 9 November 2004) (her death) (1 child) What is the zodiac sign of Iris Chang? The coroner's report, dated Dec. 23, 2004, stated: "Based on the medical investigator's report and the autopsy findings, Iris Chang, a 36-year-old Asian female, died from a self-inflicted intra-oral gunshot wound. Times Staff Writer. -- Did she suffer a fatal reaction to powerful drugs that she refused to take as prescribed? She was born in Princeton, New Jersey. At 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, a county water district employee drove past the Oldsmobile. She was mad. "I had to write it, if it was the last thing I ever did in my life. "Christopher sensed that something was going wrong with Iris," Brett said. "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. "It is a scary, dangerous and terrifyingly confusing time. "We had our lives so structured. Back in her car, she slipped the gun and owner's manual into a cardboard box labeled "Real Estate Documents" that lay on the passenger seat. Back to Christopher Douglas Page. Among other things, the compulsively well-organized Chang began losing credit cards every couple of weeks, according to Douglas, and in her last year she became paranoid about everything from viruses attacking her computer to attempts by the government to recruit her, a la The Manchurian Candidate. And she loved it. much beloved author of the books: "The Chinese in America" and "The Rape of Nanking" "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. This is for the biographers., Suicide, Kamen observes, is in a lot of ways the ultimate act of control. Douglas, who is raising the couple's five-year-old son, Christopher, told Cheng the same thing he'd told every . "In the past, when Iris was working on something, she might work for 48 hours straight and then she would crash for 20 hours, and then she'd be back up, working again," Brett said. Iris collapsed in bed. She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. She didnt really know a way of living or managing something where it wasnt a matter of sheer force of will., Kamen notes that Chang applied the same careful determination to her suicide as she did to past goals. I said, 'You need to go to bed.' "Richard was Iris' friend," said Chang. Then she got back up again. For Asian Americans to write nonfiction about Asia or Asian America was relatively new. She was 36. When Martel read in a newspaper about her death, he asked his daughter, "Is that our Iris? This put her under enormous stress. "There were up and down periods," he said. She would just laugh.". It's never boring with her -- it's interesting." Iris' reluctance to take medication may indicate the difficulty she had accepting her illness as an illness. As a teacher's assistant, she taught a class in creative writing. I've been thinking about this kid for ten years, ever since I learned of his story. She worked briefly as a reporter for the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before completing a graduate degree in writing from the Johns Hopkins University . ", Barbara Culliton, now editor in chief of Genome News Network, was then director of the Johns Hopkins science writing program. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. She promised to buy less volatile powder. I believe that Iris was very strong-willed and whatever she wanted to do, she would do. Some 8,000 died on the notorious "death march." More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born August 26, 1969 Add to list Known for The Young and the Restless 5.2 TV Series Sean Bridges 2001 5 eps [13], Chang's visibility as a public figure increased with her final work, The Chinese in America. Now author of the deceased writer's biography, The Woman Who Could Not Forget, Chang is scheduled to have a book signing at from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Iris Chang, who has committed suicide aged 36, was one of the most promising historians in America and a vigorous champion of human rights. Driving west toward Santa Cruz on Highway 17, she took a turnoff 25 miles from her home and parked on a steep gravel utility road within sight of the highway. Generally, there's an apology. Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. Lo explained. She harbored hundreds of Chinese women and children there during the occupation. She parked in front of Reed's Sport Shop, a redwood-shingled emporium that sells fishing, cycling and hunting gear. Tall and slender, with glossy black hair falling well past her shoulders, Iris emerged from her car wearing blue jeans and sneakers. In her last call to Kamen, Chang had alluded to highly placed people who didnt like her once again digging into Japanese atrocities during World War II. That such a beautiful woman would be remembered is not unusual. The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didnt emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. ", Iris took her advice, though the book she began was enormously ambitious. Facts. [10] Based on the book, an American documentary film, Nanking, was released in 2007. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. The daughter of Ying-Ying () and Dr. Shau-Jin () Chang, she was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." Chang, a San Jose resident, took her own life in Los Gatos at age 36. Iris Chang's coffin was carried to a waiting hearse to be brought to the grave site at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos. She was 36. In a funny kind of way, she was resolute, she was calm. We'll be sending you The Daily Reader starting soon. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Together, Mr. and Mrs. Chang answered the door of their quiet, two-story townhouse in San Jose. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. "I believe Iris in heaven would want me to do this, to channel my sadness into something positive.". Their families fled the 1949 Communist revolution and settled in Taiwan, where the two met in high school. The lead balls must be individually prepared, packed with gunpowder and topped with a percussive cap. Winning that prize led to dreams of becoming a writer, her father said. "He reminded me to eat and to take a walk when I was writing all day, forgetting everything else.". "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." Iris Chang was the daughter of two university professors, Ying-Ying Chang and Dr. Shau-Jin Chang, who emigrated from Taiwan to the United States. "I had considered running away, but I will never be able to escape from myself and my thoughts. (The family would not name specific drugs.). People tend to think that clinical depression is like a bad-hair day. She asked if Iris had any friends there she could call for help. There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. Long after college, Changs drive, intelligence, and tireless research continued to put her ahead of her peers. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. Later she married Bretton Lee Douglas. Iris Chang's coffin was carried to a waiting hearse to be brought to the grave site at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos. Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." Brett soon grew concerned that Iris was overextended. The other diarist -- the "Anne Frank of Nanking" -- was an Illinois woman named Minnie Vautrin. ", Rabiner invited Iris to spend a week or so at her home in Westchester County, N.Y. "I figured we'd take a week off and just relax, walk the woods up here. Iris got a massage. Blood covered her clothes. 162 Christopher H Douglas. She lived in San Jose, California in the final years of her life.[6][7]. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT, iris chang and bataan march survivor ed martel and his wife courtesy ed martel, THIS IS A HANDOUT IMAGE. CHANG2-C-29APR03-DD-HO.jpg theguardian.com. In the end, the war she could not win raged internally. It was well- reviewed, though it never sold in great numbers. While en route to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where she planned to gain access to a "time capsule" of audio recordings from servicemen, she suffered an extreme bout of depression that left her unable to leave her hotel room in Louisville. "Most lived in dark, squalid apartments cluttered with the debris of poverty and heavy with mildew and humidity," she wrote. I have no evidence of foul play. I was there for three days and we talked. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". The views expressed in this post are the author's own. A poster-size photograph of Iris, lit by candlelight, stood vigil on the lawn of Spangler Mortuary in Los Altos in the early evening of Nov. 18. Then, a larger-than-life video image of Iris appeared on a wide-screen monitor: She was speaking as an expert witness in a mock grand jury trial of Emperor Hirohito, filmed at the 2003 Youth Conference at San Francisco City College, which the Nanking Redress Coalition sponsored. ", That night, Iris and Brett followed their routine and went to sleep around midnight. Copy photo of Iris Chang with her husband Brett Douglas and their son at his birthday party. "These people wanted their story told for a long, long time, and they knew that because Iris had success as an author, she'd be able to do a very good job," Brett said. Iris Chang, you had done a lot to fully expose the Nanjing Massacre happened 70 years ago. "You'll have to forgive me, but I find myself often deeply affected by these stories. "My dad was so excited that she was doing this, and so honored.". I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. Newsweek ran an excerpt, and soon Iris was a familiar face on TV news shows. She hoped to gain access to a time capsule of audiotapes that was sealed within that tank after the war. Irrefutably, Iris Chang won many battles in her fight for justice. Bretton Douglas. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" I would tell her, 'You can care too much about what people say about you.' "But this time, I had assumed she was sleeping all day after working all night. The Nanking book had "made Iris sad. [19] Chang was also reportedly deeply disturbed by much of the subject matter of her research. Such harsh logic, symptomatic of the disease, rendered her unable to extend her own magnificent compassion to herself. She did, and, starting in November 2003, would make four trips to meet with Bataan vets -- in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. Next to it, now, is a copy of Iris' obituary. Chang adalah anak perempuan dari dua profesor yang lahir di Tiongkok yang kemudian berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat dari Taiwan. Iris met the man she would marry in 1989, when she was a sophomore in journalism at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. "Civilization is tissue thin," Iris wrote. After seeing the Nanking pictures, Iris wrote: "I was suddenly in a panic that this reversion in human social evolution would be reduced to a footnote of history unless someone forced the world to remember it. "But she worked herself way too hard when she was there. "You didn't always feel she was talking to you --, it was as if she had to talk. For her, it was a relief," said Masin. In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. It also showed publishing houses that there is a market for books about the Chinese experience. Christopher Douglas was born on the 29th of August, 1969. Iris told her mother that working on it was a vacation after "Rape of Nanking. Most of the calls were from women, said Betty Hong, executive director of the Oakland clinic. D. in Biological Chemistry from Harvard University, had a scientist's career until her retirement in 2002. He immediately called the police. On Nov. 9, 2004, historian Iris Chang was found dead on a rural California road just south of Los Gatos. Such "black powder" firearms, popular with Civil War re-enactors, require skill to load and fire. It was just after nine on a November morning in 2004 and he had spotted a female driver who was either asleep or in trouble. But lunch lasted through dinner. It was as if he were back in Bataan. At the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos Hills, the photograph stood on an easel before the chapel. Forgive me because I cannot forgive myself.". "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. "Every time we set a rule, she always tried to find some way to get around it. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". "The Iris Chang I first met in October 1988 never came back," Douglas said. The newlyweds settled in Santa Barbara, and Iris began writing the book about Tsien. Their second child, Michael, was born in 1970. Iris Chang was the daughter of two university professors, Ying-Ying Chang and Dr. Shau-Jin Chang, who moved from mainland China to Taiwan and eventually emigrated to the United States. One speaker called Iris "a hero for those muffled by injustice." The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didn't emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. "Iris used to say she never understood why people would commit suicide, so she was definitely not a suicidal type," said Chang. Box. Di sana ia belajar di SMA Laboratorium Universitas Urbana, Illinois dan lulus pada 1985. Married 41 years, the Changs are a handsome, gracious couple. Director. They are the ones who brought her up." Worse, Chang had started out as a computer science major and switched with Kamens encouragement. "It boggles the imagination, what you went through," she said. She got from the airport to the hotel, but that was all she could do. Nearby, Bear Creek Road curled up the lonesome hills, thick with black oak. "Iris always came to us to discuss her problems," her mother said. "But he spoke to her mother on the phone and told Iris, 'Your mom is on the phone, so it's OK.' ". "She was very tired," her mother said. Iris Shun-Ru Chang was born March 28, 1968, in Princeton Hospital, on the university campus in New Jersey where her parents were doing postdoctoral work. "They drop so fast," the letter had read. And Iris would buy lunch and dinner for everybody, and they all thought it was great. There was still research to do. (The book has yet to be translated for publication in Japan.) Related To Courtney Douglas, Brenda Douglas, Sherry Douglas, Lynd Douglas, Maki Douglas. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. AKA Iris Shun-Ru Chang. She paid the gunsmith $10. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. By Dennis McLellan. "No, no! Christopher Douglas Happy Birthday. Since her untimely death in 2004, the legacy of world-renowned Chinese-American author Iris Chang () has lived on in the pages of her bestseller, "The Rape of Nanking.". "To see her on TV, defending 'Rape of Nanking' so fiercely and so fearlessly -- I just sat down, stopped, in awe," said Helen Zia, author of "Asian-American Dreams: Emergence of an American People" and co-author, with Wen-Ho Lee, of "My Country Versus Me: The First-Hand Account by the Los Alamos Scientist Who Was Falsely Accused. "Iris was much in demand and gave many talks," Brett recalled, adding with a laugh, "she was schmoozing the whole time." Education We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. The Highway Patrol then called the Santa Clara Sheriff's homicide unit and detective Sgt. "But I woke up at 2 a.m. and she was pacing the hallway," Brett said. And she believed her research produced irrevocable proof of Japanese atrocities. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) Iris Chang was an American journalist, human rights activist, and author. I didn't know if I'd hear from her again." "For three days they gave her medication, the first time in her life." Though Iris had previously suffered what her parents called "down" periods after bouts of intense exertion, the lows were never as extreme as what befell her in Kentucky. "He made breakfast for me," she said. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. The fundamental question about suicide, as Howard I. Kushner wrote in "Self-Destruction in the Promised Land," is this: "Why, when faced with a similar set of circumstances -- whether cultural, psychological or biological -- does one person commit suicide while another does not? Nitin Gadkari 15844 bday balloons. Iris was "shocked and depressed" to see their living conditions in Nanking. But as she began to manifest symptoms of bipolar illness, she perceived them as a failure of will. We need people to be covering atrocities and mental illness and genocide. Rumors swirled in the early days after her suicide. "When somebody like Iris makes up their mind that they're going to commit suicide, they're going to do it. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. She was committed to her cause, and she radiated life. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Then, in high school, Iris became determined to revive the school's literary magazine, and quickly enlisted a staff and a sponsor. Shed already spoken with Changs widower, Brett Douglas, and knew about the fertility treatments the couple had undergone in order to have their son, Christopher, who was born in 2002. "It was family lore. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. In three days, her parents came to take her home. Chang had returned to World War II for the book she was working on when she died, interviewing survivors of the Bataan Death March who were, like the Chinese, demanding an official apology from the Japanese government. Date Of Birth. And she was determined not to be hospitalized again. The Douglas iris was first collected near Monterey, California by the Scottish botanist and explorer David Douglas who also discovered and gave his name to the Douglas fir. After publication of the book, Chang campaigned to persuade the Japanese government to apologize for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation. Iris was first and foremost an advocate. "We went out and did really long hikes, and it seemed to help. But there has to be dialogue about how to do that in the long term., In All in My Head, Kamen documents how she learned to slow down and come to terms with a life of chronic pain. "He got the job, we went," Mrs. Chang explained. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Contents 1 Background 2 Writing credits 3 Presenting 3.1 Acting credits 4 Publications 5 References But not so well known is that the idea for the book came to author Iris Chang while she was in Cupertino at the in December 1994. The Committee of 100 is a national non-partisan organization composed of American citizens of Chinese descent who have achieved positions of leadership in the United States in a broad range of professions. We called him every day, sometimes two or three times a day. A book packager wanted to publish a children's version of 'The Chinese in America. The author, who committed suicide nearly 10 years later, saw a graphic photo exhibition of the 1937 Japanese attack on Nanking civilians and felt an urge to publicize the almost-buried atrocity to the world, according to her mother, Ying-Ying Chang. Chang, 36 . Her last Bataan trip was scheduled for July 2004. Although Tsien was one of the founders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and for many years helped the military of the United States debrief scientists from Nazi Germany, he was suddenly accused of being a spy and a member of the Communist Party USA, and was placed under house arrest from 1950 to 1955. "Why did he have to toy with me like that?" But Kalcic and his employees did not know how unusual Iris Chang was: a world- renowned author whose work had stirred international controversy. Sunday morning, they drove to Santa Cruz for lunch on the pier, then went to her favorite spa, Chaminade -- a 300-acre mission-style resort, surrounded by redwoods and eucalyptus, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The parents of Iris Chang sit close together, their faces drawn. So she took a little bit and then she stopped -- and it shouldn't be stopped like that. Family members say he shows no signs of autism. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. Register for a user account. He was a man she had met in college. Iris called to say she had found Tsien's son and had interviewed him in Mandarin. After her death, she became the subject of tributes from fellow writers. Iris Chang Iris Shun-Ru Chang born March 28, 1968 Princeton, New Jersey died by suicide on a road south of San Francisco, near Los Gatos, November 9, 2004 father Shau-Jin Chang, a physics professor at the University of Illinois mother Ying-Ying Chang, a microbiology professor at the University of Illinois brother Michael Chang By now, Brett was living in Santa Barbara, working toward a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of California. Whoops! I promise not to hurt myself. He thought Iris was improving.". . Open sky surrounds broad, rolling lawns at the crest of a hill. According to Brett Douglas, who married Iris Chang in 1991, all the information his wife gathered during her stay in Nanjing, was "distilled and filtered" in the writing process, when she was "working 70-hour weeks". [5] She then embarked on her career as an author and lectured and wrote magazine articles. Most lived in poverty so crushing that even a minimal amount of financial compensation from Japan could have greatly improved the conditions of their lives. I got off the phone confused and concerned, but I was too unsophisticated about psychological problems to realize that she was saying goodbye to me. Event on 11/19/04 in Los Altos Hills Eric Luse / The Chronicle Ran on: 11-20-2004 After he and his fellow soldiers had been starved and beaten for months, a Japanese guard knocked him to the ground, piercing his chest with his bayonet. As she later told an interviewer, "I wrote 'Rape of Nanking' out of a sense of rage. The sound of children singing wafted in from the swimming pool nearby. We don't work that way," Rabiner insisted. In her book, Kamen recalls how Chang approached an editor on one of her first days at the U. of I.s Daily Illini and asked simplywithout small talk or polite conversationHow do I get your job? 64 years old (June 07, 1958) Purple Rain. ', In a way Finding Iris Chang is Kamens way of Iris Chang-ing it. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. Haunted by the belief that she had failed, Vautrin suffered a breakdown in 1940. "We weren't really prepared for the success of the book," Brett said. As she wrote in the Salon piece, Kamen spoke to Chang by phone a few days before her death and was shocked to hear her normally upbeat friendwhose penchant for hours-long conversations could be exhaustingsound sad and totally drained. Chang ended the conversation by asking Kamen, should anything happen to her, to let people know what she was like before. I got more response [from the Salon piece] than any other articles Ive written combined, Kamen says. The event was organized by Global Alliance and the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition. The group meets to address important issues concerning the Chinese-American community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations on 5/5/03 in New York. We always had to argue all the exceptions she could think of. 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In the month after her death, the image would be the central icon at each of three Bay Area memorials. [20], On November 9, 2004, at about 9 a.m., Chang was found dead in her car by a Santa Clara Valley Water District employee on a rural road south of Los Gatos, California and west of State Route 17, in Santa Clara County. This is a carousel. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking, and in 2003, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris . It read: "I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. Overwhelming response to the piece convinced Kamen to expand her meditation on Changs phenomenal life and her shocking death. In 1937, Vautrin was a missionary and teacher at the Nanking Women's College when its campus became part of the Safety Zone. ", While writing the book, Iris found it "almost impossible to separate myself from the tragedy," she said. . Chang wrote three books documenting the experiences of Chinese and Chinese Americans in history. When the American general surrendered on April 9, the Japanese forced the troops to walk 65 miles through sweltering jungle. In 2017, the Iris Chang Memorial Hall was built in Huai'an, China. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. It is far better that you remember me as I was -- in my heyday as a best-selling author -- than the wild-eyed wreck who returned from Louisville . Pearl Harbor was still smoldering when Japanese planes bombed the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula, where Martel was stationed with a National Guard tank battalion. ", Iris was a serious child, her mother recalled. She offered to pay Basic Books to publish it. "Clearly, Iris was a strong, smart and directed young woman," Rabiner said. "She had so many bookings, she could easily be on the road for 2 1/2 weeks before coming back home. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. Memorial service at Gate of Heaven Cemetary for IRIS CHANG The views expressed here are the author's own. Iris Shun-Ru Chang was born on March 28, 1968, in Princeton, N.J. She grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., where her father, a physicist, and her mother, a microbiologist, taught at the University . "So they tried to make it harder and harder." They had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of his mother's death in 2004. "They had a big fight," he said. photo by Tim Kao/the chronicle, Event on 3/6/05 in San Francisco. "Iris was very sensitive. He recalled telling Iris about the worst of his Bataan experiences. The report stated that Iris had been taking two medications: the mood stabilizer Depakote, an anticonvulsant similar to lithium; and a smaller dosage of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug commonly used to control mania, which is also thought to reduce suicide risk. I don't know how many printings it went through. ", During two years of research, Iris made significant historical discoveries. He noticed condensation on the windows, peered inside and saw Iris in the driver's seat with her hands crossed in her lap. "I knew writing would be more helpful to me than medicine.". Filmography. The book, "Thread of the Silkworm," was published in 1995. "Iris thought it was an injustice. "When anybody questioned the validity of what she wrote, she would respond with overwhelming evidence to back it up. He framed it and hung it on a wall in his home. The half-inch lead ball perforated her hard palate, passed through her left dural sinus, her left cerebral and occipital lobes, broke partially through her skull and came to rest without exiting her scalp. She wore herself out." Penzance, Cornwall, TR20. Less than two months later, she did. It is where she was roused from a dreamless sleep just before midnight by Iris' husband, Brett Douglas, and a police officer, who had come to tell her that her daughter her beautiful little. "She should not have gone.". Andrew Nickolds obituary. We've seen staged suicides and we've seen homicides. She touched her fingertips to her forehead, then waved her hand to the heavens: "It's because Iris is a dreamer." (Another of Changs unfinished projects was a book on defeating the biological clock.) They made an appointment. ", The book's popularity meant a lengthy book tour. Along with fear for her safety, Iris' illness generated feelings of self- blame. It has a terrible reverberating effect. "Iris could write two or three stories a day, and they loved her because she wrote so fast," he said. ", After studying the final results of the Santa Clara Country medical examiner's report, Baker closed his investigation March 1, 2005. At the same time, her foes said her suicide proved that "Rape of Nanking" was nothing but lies. One by one, each dropped a single purple iris or one red rose into the grave, saying, "Goodbye, Iris.". Reader's Digest devoted a cover story to her. "Iris wanted to talk, and I said, 'You should go to bed, it's 2 in the morning.' (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) You have a young kid. When I read The Rape of Nanking, I was struck by the parallels in the lives of these two women, Minnie and Iris, Kamen writes. Our kitchen remodeling San Jose team is ready to help right now! Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American journalist.She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking.Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, [1] and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". She got very, very wound up in things," Finkbeiner said. Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. ", Her mother added, "She was in therapy all the time, but it didn't help, and she took the medicine on and off. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. . Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that affects one in every 70 people. 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