Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. "I'd left a message -- I actually had business to talk about. 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. They went to bed at midnight. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." You're not on a moving train. 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 Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Another said: "Let us thank her parents. After her own years of research on the interplay of hormones and the brain, Kamen believes. "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. In 1998, Brett recalled, "for her 30th birthday, we went out to a little resort near Santa Cruz and she literally didn't want to leave the room.". I didn't know if I'd hear from her again." As she later told an interviewer, "I wrote 'Rape of Nanking' out of a sense of rage. One by one, each dropped a single purple iris or one red rose into the grave, saying, "Goodbye, Iris.". 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. 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. Iris was first and foremost an advocate. The Police Department drafted a missing person's report. 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. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" 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. Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. News of her suicide brought forth a chorus of disbelief. "Iris could write two or three stories a day, and they loved her because she wrote so fast," he said. 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 bought Derek Humphrys book on suicide, Final Exit, and sent boxes of her papers to three different archivesat the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford, and the U. of I.leaving Kamen a mountain of carefully organized materials to go through. I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Iris Chang. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." The acclaimed author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, who committed suicide on November 9, "felt other people's suffering so intensely, to the point that it made her suffer," said her friend Barbara Masin in a eulogy delivered at a memorial prior to Chang's burial in Los Altos, California. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. That book would sell half a million copies. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that affects one in every 70 people. Tsien was a top physicist at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was deported during the Red scare of the 1950s. Each time, Iris swept into town and conducted four or five intensive interviews in as many days. "Iris scraped away the scar tissue of something that had been half forgotten and half healed over, and to this date, it's still a very raw wound, " said Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. "Statement of Iris Chang" stated: I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. She went back to bed. Title Type Publication date Author(s) Description; Document:The Mysterious Deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Iris Chang: article: 1 August 2011: By Douglas on 09-05-09 Sample The Rape of Nanking; By: Iris Chang . 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 got the job, we went," Mrs. Chang explained. 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. For reviews of the book, visit irischang.net/news/index.php. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. He stopped and honked but there was no response. But, her father said, "In spite of many sessions, Iris did not tell the therapist her deepest thoughts. Brett Douglas was a tall, low-key redhead, nearly two years her senior and an engineering graduate student when they were introduced at a Sigma Phi Delta fraternity party on campus. Mom was a self hating, mentally ill Asian woman married to a gangly white nerd. ", Martel was slightly hard of hearing, but his memory was crisp. "Most lived in dark, squalid apartments cluttered with the debris of poverty and heavy with mildew and humidity," she wrote. Iris discovered this group of Chinese American activists after she and Brett moved to Northern California when he got a job with Cisco Systems. "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. There's a stigma within the culture about accessing care, because then people will think there is something wrong with you and your family. She passed the football field and the blocky, concrete auditorium of James Lick High School. "She ventured into a minefield of unexploded ordnance.". Brett devised a "20-Point Plan to Make Iris Well," listing such remedies as going to the beach; calling friends; eating well (on her desk, she kept a book titled "How Food Affects Your Mood" next to her Franklin Planner); and getting exercise. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. "Iris was a phenomenon," said one of her former teachers at Johns Hopkins, Ann Finkbeiner. By the time that was done, it was already eight years. The debate it provoked -- between those Japanese who deny the atrocities and the Chinese who seek an official apology and reparations -- continues. This was not her first visit. ", The book rocketed Iris into the pantheon of American intellectuals. Smith said the colonel spent only a short time with her. 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. We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. Kamen recalls once commenting on how thorough Changs filing system was: her friend replied, It has to be. It is far better that you remember me as I wasin my heyday as a best-selling authorthan the wild-eyed wreck who returned from Louisville. As a duo played traditional Chinese music, a group of nearly 100 gathered at the Millbrae headquarters of the Chinese-language daily the World Journal. But Into the Numbers, by the Chinese-American playwright Christopher Chen, genuinely is. Chang had used her diary as a source, and Vautrins story figures prominently in her book. "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. "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. Asians were the first immigrant community that 'made it,' and we should all be doctors and lawyers." But the nanny spoke only Mandarin. After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. Thinking the driver must be asleep, he got out of his car and banged on the hood. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She did, and, starting in November 2003, would make four trips to meet with Bataan vets -- in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. I will stop by to visit my parents then go for a long walk. "She talked almost obsessively. Iris Chang's coffen was carried to a waiting hearst and a short drive to the burial site at the cemetary. and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer. For Asian Americans to write nonfiction about Asia or Asian America was relatively new. Iris called to say she had found Tsien's son and had interviewed him in Mandarin. Christopher Douglas Retweeted. ", On her trip to China, she met with survivors from Nanking. She was too strong-willed not to.". Sixteen years later, and five days after her death, Brett sat in the living room of the San Jose town home they shared, surrounded by family photos. She feared these vaccinations may have caused him to become autistic. They are the ones who brought her up." "This was something of a roots venture for her -- to reconnect with the country that her family had drifted off from," said UC Berkeley's Schell. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. "There were up and down periods," he said. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, 2023 Chicago Police District Councils Voter Guide, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. Birth announcement for Christopher Joseph Chang Douglas 2002. box 174, folder 2-6. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. I will stop by to visit my parents then go for a long walk. We called him every day, sometimes two or three times a day. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. Iris learned to read at age 4. ", Rabiner became worried, too. It's a shame these atrocities had to be happened in the hands of Japanese. Between eulogies, a guitarist played "Let It Be." 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. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. She parked in front of Reed's Sport Shop, a redwood-shingled emporium that sells fishing, cycling and hunting gear. It was obvious she wasn't the same person that she was before," he said. She wrote three books, which made her visible as a public figure. She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. Forgive me because I cannot forgive myself.". Iris got a massage. Then, after 15 years of extraordinary achievement and major contributions to American military defense, he was branded a Communist and deported to China where he revolutionized the Chinese missile program and developed the Silkworm missile that later threatened American armed forces. It caused an international scandal because the Japanese to this day have not conceded the extent of the wartime atrocities perpetrated against the Chinese and others. 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. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. 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. "Typically, people start losing sleep, then stay up later and later each night. he cried. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. She believed her phone was tapped. Speaking of the night they met, Brett said, "Iris was beautiful, vivacious -- and sober. Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. SHAU-JIN CHANG (FATHER), left, AND YING-YING CHANG (MOTHER), PARENTS OF IRIS CHANG, WHO COMMITTED SUICIDE IN NOVEMBERR 2004. 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. There's a girl who wants to get into Submit,' " Mr. Chang recalled. I told her that I wanted her to call me the next night and every night after that until she worked out the details. According to the police report, Iris phoned a local gunsmith, an antique firearms specialist who did business from his home. 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. the-rape-of-nanking-iris-chang 1/8 Downloaded from dev.endhomelessness.org on March 1, 2023 by guest The Rape Of Nanking Iris Chang When people should go to the books stores, search start by shop, shelf by shelf, it is in reality problematic. Married 41 years, the Changs are a handsome, gracious couple. Her mother concurred: "At AP, she worked so hard she couldn't sleep. ", The book's popularity meant a lengthy book tour. ". "It was family lore. of a professor of physics (father) and a microbiologist (mother); graduated in journalist from University of Illinois, 1989; attended Johns Hopkins University; m. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. But this time, "she appeared unhappy," the manager told investigators. Iris dubbed him the "Oskar Schindler of Nanking.". Douglas, who is raising the couple's five-year-old son, Christopher, told Cheng the same thing he'd told every filmmaker who approached him for his late wife's story - to go through her things at the institute where she worked, talk to the people she'd interviewed, then get back to him if still interested. Brett soon grew concerned that Iris was overextended. December 8-9, 2007, The Weekend Australian. ", Rising from his chair, her father pulled a small red leather volume from the bookshelf. ", The Gate of Heaven was well named. Christopher Douglas is known for The Onedin Line (1971), Early Travellers in North America (1992) and Crown Court (1972). I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. Questions hung in the air: -- How could someone with such success, surrounded by loving family and friends, take her own life? Chang said she never took any antidepressants when devastated by Iris' death. Lo explained. . "It is a scary, dangerous and terrifyingly confusing time. This could be a one-time event or it could signal the onset of bipolar disorder, the doctors told them. 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. This is a carousel. At the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos Hills, the photograph stood on an easel before the chapel. Iris Chang loved life, her mother said: "I want people to know Iris, not just her suicide. Aps obter o Mestrado em Letras, pela Johns Hopkins University, dedicou-se carreira de escritora . She was very depressed." Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist.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. It became a surprise best-seller. 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 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. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. Overwhelming response to the piece convinced Kamen to expand her meditation on Changs phenomenal life and her shocking death. Iris would be working solo. Her parents saw her off that morning. "But she worked herself way too hard when she was there. "She would just say, matter-of-factly, 'Japan is lying and here's why.' ", Between August and November, Iris saw two different therapists before finding one who seemed a good fit. In the final version, she added: "There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. "When anybody questioned the validity of what she wrote, she would respond with overwhelming evidence to back it up. There is always free will. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. 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. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. () Province, and she is survived by her husband Bretton Lee Douglas and her only son Christopher. General 1994-2003. . She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. 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. Iris insisted she had already passed. Chang said she usually gives three reasons for her unconventional decision to write her daughter's biography: to commemorate Iris, to tell Iris' son, Christopher Douglas, all about the. Just do it!" Iris Chang died on November 9, 2004. "They drop so fast," the letter had read. Iris Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. So we finally started trying, and then we had our son in 2002. We don't work that way," Rabiner insisted. This put her under enormous stress. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. He explained that the gunpowder she had was unsafe to use indoors. Such "black powder" firearms, popular with Civil War re-enactors, require skill to load and fire. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. ", After studying the final results of the Santa Clara Country medical examiner's report, Baker closed his investigation March 1, 2005. It also showed publishing houses that there is a market for books about the Chinese experience. My sincere condolences to Mr. Douglas and to young Christopher. . Blood covered her clothes. In the fall of 1990, Iris took Finkbeiner's "Science Stories" course. I don't know how many printings it went through. ", Three days before Iris' death, Brett dreamed up a special weekend, just for her. Kamen loved Chang, but she was determined not to "write a Hallmark card," either. As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the black-clad tribe of mourners formed a line. 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. One of the veterans -- a colonel she had planned to meet in Louisville -- came to the hotel. 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. ", "Chinese Americans grew up hearing about this forgotten holocaust," said Zia, whose grandmother was killed in Nanking. "Iris is sensitive, but she got charged up," he recalled. That afternoon, she checked herself in to Norton Psychiatric Hospital in Louisville, with help from the colonel. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. ", Rabiner, who later became an agent and represented Iris, said, "The book was beyond well reviewed -- it was a mega-best-seller that continues to sell. She was seeing a therapist two to three times a week, Brett said, but fought against having family members participate. Some of Changs friends blamed the relentless pace of her work. Iris Chang - The woman who loved truth. ", Most of the attacks came from Japanese ultranationalists. There, Iris had lengthy conversations with then-President Bill Clinton and gave him a signed copy of "The Rape of Nanking.". 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. Please forgive me.[21]. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. 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. "She would go into a town -- and with Tony Meldahl's help, it was even better. We always had to argue all the exceptions she could think of. "I believe Iris in heaven would want me to do this, to channel my sadness into something positive.". The war she lost raged withinby Heidi Benson. Together, Mr. and Mrs. Chang answered the door of their quiet, two-story townhouse in San Jose. Chang, 36 . Box. There are so many kids his age here. I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. In early 2004, she traveled to promote the paperback version of "The Chinese in America." Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). They made an appointment to meet Wednesday at the firing range. He had only recently retired from the family farm in central Illinois that had been in the family for five generations. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. "My dad was so excited that she was doing this, and so honored.". On the day of Iris Chang's death, word spread quickly over news wires and the Internet. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". In a single blinding moment I recognized the fragility of not just life but the human experience itself.". Chang tells the story of a rocket scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, who was born in China in 1911 and educated in the United States. At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. 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. "I wanted to give support to families that suffered the same kind of loss, and it really worked in that way. I thought it would break the spell, break the hold of these emotions. This bustling city of 6 million glimmers. Thu 11/8, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. Then, in high school, Iris became determined to revive the school's literary magazine, and quickly enlisted a staff and a sponsor. 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. Best of Chicago 2021About the Chicago ReaderReader Staff Reader CareersFreelance InformationContact UsBecome a memberDonate, AdvertiseSubmit/promote your eventFind the PaperSubscribeShop the Reader StoreContests/Giveaways/Promotions. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. She got very, very wound up in things," Finkbeiner said. It was well- reviewed, though it never sold in great numbers. 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. They met again at Taiwan University -- and yet again when each won a science scholarship to Harvard in 1962. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. Home Deep Cleaning . "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. 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