Months earlier, Iris had seized on a letter in her "book ideas" file about a Midwestern pocket of Bataan survivors, all members of two tank battalions. photo by Tim Kao/the chronicle, Event on 3/6/05 in San Francisco. Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. At 11:56 a.m., Iris presented her driver's license and counted out $517 in cash -- she was carrying nearly $4,000 -- and left the store with an ivory-handled Ruger "Old Army" .45 replica revolver. Waking at 5 a.m., Brett saw Iris was gone. It was hard for her not to react every single time. Overwhelming response to the piece convinced Kamen to expand her meditation on Changs phenomenal life and her shocking death. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. . 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. 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One of the veterans -- a colonel she had planned to meet in Louisville -- came to the hotel. She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." She was diagnosed with bipolar disorderwhich Chang rejectedjust two weeks before her suicide. 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. CHANG2-C-29APR03-DD-HO.jpg Theirs was not just a story of war, but of boys becoming men, she said in a transcription of one of her many taped interviews. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. "The boys came together to say, 'Crisis! Iris Chang, who has committed suicide aged 36, was one of the most promising historians in America and a vigorous champion of human rights. Iris Chang killed herself on Nov 9, 2004. ", While writing the book, Iris found it "almost impossible to separate myself from the tragedy," she said. 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.". Chasing the shadows. "The Man Who Ended History", a story in The Paper Managerie by Ken Liu about uncovering the history of Unit 731, is dedicated to the memory of Chang. 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. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. Worse, Chang had started out as a computer science major and switched with Kamens encouragement. Anthony Meldahl, a supply sergeant with the Ohio National Guard who had admired Iris' work. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. View this record View. 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 of Illinois. She said she was confronted by a man who said, "You will NOT continue writing this. " At 12:40 p.m., she stopped for lunch at FujiSan Sushi in Milpitas Square. They had spent one hour together. Then she got back up again. After eloquent eulogies by family and friends, a tribute written by U. S. Rep. Michael Honda was recited, which he had read into the Congressional Record earlier that week: "Her fierce pride of her Chinese American heritage empowered others with the certainty that they were truly Americans Our community has lost a role model and close friend; the world has lost one of its finest and most passionate advocates of social and historical justice. "Iris was very sensitive. 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. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" "And then we stretched it to six, and then 'The Rape of Nanking' hit the best-seller list and she was out promoting it for almost two years. and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer. ", The book's popularity meant a lengthy book tour. Through a third party, the colonel declined to be interviewed. The Memorial Hall, which collects documents, photos, and human remains from the massacre, added both a wing and a bronze statue dedicated to Chang in 2005. As a youngster, Iris had sought books on the subject in her school library. "Iris was a phenomenon," said one of her former teachers at Johns Hopkins, Ann Finkbeiner. 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. Every suicide is the tragic terminus of a tangle of roads, a route unique as a thumbprint. It's very hard to believe that there is something wrong with your mind," said Dr. David Lo, director of Santa Cruz Mental Health Services and former director of Chinatown Mental Health Center in San Francisco. News of her suicide brought forth a chorus of disbelief. ", His voice slipped to a whisper. "She should not have gone.". She asked me if I was religious -- I said I wasn't, not at all. Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' Brett said, "It was, I think, 21 cities in 28 days. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. The event was organized by Global Alliance and the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didn't emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. He and Emily Harper both appeared on the soap opera Passions. Contents 1 Background 2 Writing credits 3 Presenting 3.1 Acting credits 4 Publications 5 References She passed the football field and the blocky, concrete auditorium of James Lick High School. "It's a double-edged sword. She got from the airport to the hotel, but that was all she could do. That night, she had dinner with her husband of 13 years, Brett Douglas. Iris Chang : biography March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004 she confronted the Japanese Ambassador to the United States on television, demanded an apology and expressed her dissatisfaction with his mere acknowledgement "that really unfortunate things happened, acts of violence were committed by members of the Japanese military". There's almost zero chance that the kid isn't autistic. At the end of the three days, I was making silly little jokes and she was laughing. It's never boring with her -- it's interesting." But Kalcic and his employees did not know how unusual Iris Chang was: a world- renowned author whose work had stirred international controversy. South Bay Rep.'s Expenditures Stir Prez Bid Buzz: Report, Convicted Serial Killer Pleads Guilty In 1973 Stanford Cold Case, Peninsula Youth Theatre's 'The Snow Queen' 2023: Mountain View, Pianist Alessandro Deljavan - Steinway Society Bay Area Concert 2023: San Jose, Symphony San Jose 'Tchaikovsky Flute' With Soloist Denis Bouriakov 2023: SJ, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 'In Every Generation' 2023: Mountain View. "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. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) The whole process, how she planned everything, is very, very methodical., Kamen says Chang never understood how her drive pissed people off. Christopher J. Chang (Chemistry), Ral Coronado (Ethnic Studies), Ken Light (Journalism), and Debarati Sanyal . "Twice I broke down and had to leave the room.". 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. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. According to Brett Douglas, who married Iris . Isles Of Scilly, TR21. Some 8,000 died on the notorious "death march." It's a shame these atrocities had to be happened in the hands of Japanese. Please forgive me.[21]. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "I spent several hours with each one, getting the details of their experiences on videotape. 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. She preferred to meet someone in each town who could introduce her to the veterans and their families. Beautiful as always, she was dressed in an indigo blue suit, identical in color and hue to the dress in the photograph. An excerpt from an interview with author Iris Chang held during her appearance at the New York State Writers Institute on April 14, 2004. When the American general surrendered on April 9, the Japanese forced the troops to walk 65 miles through sweltering jungle. "Clearly, Iris was a strong, smart and directed young woman," Rabiner said. Ying-Ying is a biochemist. In 1997, Iris Changs The Rape of Nanking was published to great critical acclaim and quickly became a national bestseller. At Johns Hopkins, Iris studied playwriting, fiction, poetry and science writing. I was not alone in eating Iris dust, Kamen noted ruefully in an essay she wrote for Salon shortly after Changs death. The lead balls must be individually prepared, packed with gunpowder and topped with a percussive cap. The daughter of Ying-Ying () and Dr. Shau-Jin () Chang, she was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Many families sent me emails after reading my book," said Chang, citing an example of a couple shocked by the suicide of their daughter, a Stanford graduate who seemed to have a bright future. "We went to see 'Ray,' " Brett said. But the nanny spoke only Mandarin. 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. This is a carousel. They made an appointment. In 1998, she and Brett were invited to attend Renaissance Weekend -- the meeting-of-the-minds seminar held each New Year's weekend in South Carolina. . The cycle of mood shifts that distinguish the disease -- from manic highs to depressive lows -- differs with every sufferer. Tell us what happened. She would talk about her achievements openly, and people saw her as putting them down or bragging, when it was really that she believed there was enough success to go around., A Canadian documentary about Chang is in the works and two statues honoring her have been erected since her deathone at Stanford, the other at a memorial to the Nanking massacre in whats now called Nanjing, where another woman from Illinois is honored. "Iris used to say she never understood why people would commit suicide, so she was definitely not a suicidal type," said Chang. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. The Chang laboratory studies the chemistry of biology and energy. Christopher P Douglas, 63. Normally, Iris never did interviews alone. Chang said she's very grateful to her husband for being extremely supportive in her writing process. ", Baker explained his conclusion: "There's no evidence that any kind of conspiracy caused her death. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography Finding Iris Chang,[1] and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking starring Olivia Cheng as Iris Chang. Penzance, Cornwall, TR20. "Every single survivor I met was desperately anxious to tell his or her story," she later said. "There is no way that a family member could sort out all the details, let alone their own feelings, because they're connected to the person," Dr. Along with fear for her safety, Iris' illness generated feelings of self- blame. She hoped to gain access to a time capsule of audiotapes that was sealed within that tank after the war. 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. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. She found the diaries of a pair of Westerners who were among the heroes of Nanking. Kamen recalls once commenting on how thorough Changs filing system was: her friend replied, It has to be. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. . But just in time, Iris changed the subject, prompting him to tell a lighter story. Similar situation to my own Mom was a self hating, mentally ill Asian woman married to a gangly white nerd. 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? asked Iris, knowing Martel had been saved from near starvation by the brushy mustache he wore. Born: 28-Mar-1968 Birthplace: Princeton, NJ . ", Her father patted the tabletop. Iris Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. "She was afraid of him when he showed up," Smith said. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. We called him every day, sometimes two or three times a day. 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I was worried. @TheJohnRylands. Turning right, she pulled into the strip mall across the street from the school. She was easily hurt, though sometimes she didn't show it. What made it much easier is that we did have a wonderful nanny to help. One month later, on Saturday, Dec. 11, the same elegant photograph of Iris was displayed at a memorial honoring her on the 67th anniversary of the invasion of Nanking. 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. She wrote her thesis on "The Poetry of Science." This post was contributed by a community member. He explained that the gunpowder she had was unsafe to use indoors. "He immediately agreed to read my manuscript and write the introduction when I asked him.". Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. "During the massacre some had received physical injuries so severe they had been prevented from making a decent living for decades. Copyright 2011 irischang.net All Rights Reserved. When Martel read in a newspaper about her death, he asked his daughter, "Is that our Iris? Copy photo of Iris Chang with her husband Brett Douglas and their son at his birthday party. Chang, the author of the international best seller "The Rape of Nanking," the compelling history of "the Chinese holocaust" the 1937 brutal torture and murder of upward of 35 million Chinese citizens at the hands of the Japanese, was instantly labeled a human rights pioneer. 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 . Published by Basic Books on December 1997 (the 60th anniversary of the massacre) and in paperback by Penguin in 1998, "The Rape of Nanking" the first, full-length English-language narrative of the atrocity to reach a wide audience remained on the New York Times bestseller list for several months, became a New York Times Notable Book, and was cited by Bookman Review Syndicate as one of the best books of 1997. December 8-9, 2007, The Weekend Australian. We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. 66 years old (May 27, 1956) Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. The views expressed here are the author's own. Slowing down, he repeated, "It's interesting. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. Born in China, educated at M.I.T. "She would go into a town -- and with Tony Meldahl's help, it was even better. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. ', In a way Finding Iris Chang is Kamens way of Iris Chang-ing it. "Civilization is tissue thin," Iris wrote. 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. 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. "I wanted to give support to families that suffered the same kind of loss, and it really worked in that way. "We weren't really prepared for the success of the book," Brett said. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. The late Iris Chang was eulogized in simultaneous ceremonies in northern California, Washington and Nanjing, China on Friday. iris changs family Iris told her mother that working on it was a vacation after "Rape of Nanking. She was a journalism graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana and worked briefly as a reporter in Chicago before winning a graduate fellowship to the writing seminars program at The Johns Hopkins University. But all of them wanted the opportunity to talk about the massacre before their deaths. "My dad was so excited that she was doing this, and so honored.". Forgive me because I cannot forgive myself.". Her last Bataan trip was scheduled for July 2004. We don't work that way," Rabiner insisted. "There are a fair number of people who don't take kindly to what she wrote in 'The Rape of Nanking,' " Brett said, "so she's always been very, very private about our family life. Register for a user account. Chang dilahirkan di Princeton, New Jersey dan dibesarkan di Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. Iris dubbed him the "Oskar Schindler of Nanking.". But there was none. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". Ultimately, three notes were found, all dated Monday, Nov. 8, 2004. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. It had been the largest U.S. Army surrender in history. Iris would be working solo. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND ", Iris took her advice, though the book she began was enormously ambitious. "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. "Iris was a very strong person, even when she was depressed," said Brett. She had suffered from years of depression and constant sleep deprivation since her bestseller - full title The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War Two - was published in 1997. In three days, her parents came to take her home. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. But even before the publication of "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History," Chang had established herself as an invaluable source of information about Asia, human rights, and Asian American history. It read: "I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. -- Did she suffer a fatal reaction to powerful drugs that she refused to take as prescribed? "She had so many bookings, she could easily be on the road for 2 1/2 weeks before coming back home. The Nanking book had "made Iris sad. I would tell her, 'You can care too much about what people say about you.' Kuang's debut novel, The Poppy War, is dedicated to Iris Chang. She got very, very wound up in things," Finkbeiner said. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. ", At the same time, torrents of hate mail came in, Brett said. "But I woke up at 2 a.m. and she was pacing the hallway," Brett said. Paula Kamen. 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. "First they gave her an antipsychotic, to stabilize her," her mother said. "Sometimes, people can be both mentally ill and highly disciplined, highly structured, highly productive members of society, whether you're talking about science or business or the arts. Sluggishness is a common side effect of Depakote, because it subdues the manic phase of bipolar disorder by depressing the central nervous system. "There was a time earlier, in September, when we were worried, but she seemed to come out of that. On the far wall, a gallery of mounted deer heads marked her destination: the hunting department. We've seen staged suicides and we've seen homicides. As she later told an interviewer, "I wrote 'Rape of Nanking' out of a sense of rage. Dr. Chang's passion of athletics, curiosity about movement mechanics, and desire to improve people's quality of life led him to pursue his profession as . But now that legacy has also found a home in a museum in China dedicated to her work. The first draft said: "When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. Those close to Iris had always seen her ups and downs as part of the natural cycle of a brilliant person with intense drive, passionate commitment and a capacity for hard work. Open sky surrounds broad, rolling lawns at the crest of a hill. . "We went out and did really long hikes, and it seemed to help. 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. Like others, Kamen had wondered if postpartum depression might have played a role in her mental decline. Homicide detectives would eventually determine that Iris had loaded all six chambers of the gun, placed the barrel between her lips, and fired. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. Just do it!" The daughter of two university professors who had emigrated from China, Chang was born in Princeton, New . 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. The debate it provoked -- between those Japanese who deny the atrocities and the Chinese who seek an official apology and reparations -- continues. It was obvious she wasn't the same person that she was before," he said. 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. "She was so driven," Brett said, "she just wouldn't take time off." 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. "For anybody who experiences mental illness for the first time, it's very hard to accept that it is your biology that is making it happen. A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." Chang, who lived in San Jose, shot herself to death Nov. 9 in her car, parked along a rural road south of Los Gatos. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominenet author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." ", They had moved from a small apartment in Sunnyvale to the San Jose townhome. "Depression is a silent epidemic among Asian Americans because we tend not to seek help soon enough," Hong said. His daughter recalled that in telling Iris this story, he got terribly worked up. She was initially a computer science major, but switched to journalism, earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. 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. 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. Now, the family rushed to learn everything they could about her illness. She wrote, "The America of today would not be the same America without the achievements of its ethnic Chinese," and that "scratch the surface of every American celebrity of Chinese heritage and you will find that, no matter how stellar their achievements, no matter how great their contribution to US society, virtually all of them have had their identities questioned at one point or another."[12]. Please reload the page and try again. She was 22. There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. Christopher Douglas was born on the 29th of August, 1969. The Ohio National Guard who had admired Iris ' illness generated feelings of self- blame fear for to... 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