Iris Chang interview, Barbara Simpson show, KSFO radio, San Francisco, California 1998 November 8. I don't know how many printings it went through. 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 was so excited when she got the contract for the book," Brett said, recalling how obsessively she ferreted out material. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American author and journalist. "My dad was so excited that she was doing this, and so honored.". he said, grinning. Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle. "She's very strong- willed," her mother said. Just what had happened to Chang was a mystery. 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 learned to read at age 4. I was not alone in eating Iris dust, Kamen noted ruefully in an essay she wrote for Salon shortly after Changs death. "Clearly, Iris was a strong, smart and directed young woman," Rabiner said. In three days, her parents came to take her home. [2] Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Works 3 Public notability 4 Depression . This bustling city of 6 million glimmers. 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. To me, it was part of that whole intensity that made Iris able to do what she went on to do. "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. She recalls their voices quivering in outrage, as the two university scientists talked of Japanese soldiers slicing Chinese babies into thirds and fourths. They had spent one hour together. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. 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. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. Dive into our most recent stories and exclusive insights from our editors and staff. ", After studying the final results of the Santa Clara Country medical examiner's report, Baker closed his investigation March 1, 2005. "Iris always came to us to discuss her problems," her mother said. "Statement of Iris Chang" stated: I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. Later, he would tell police that she "seemed distracted or aloof.". You're not on a moving train. Married 41 years, the Changs are a handsome, gracious couple. 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. She wrote: "After reading several file cabinets' worth of documents on Japanese war crimes as well as accounts of ancient atrocities from the pantheon of world history, I would have to conclude that Japan's behavior during World War II was less a product of dangerous people than of a dangerous government, in a vulnerable culture, in dangerous times, able to sell dangerous rationalizations to those whose human instincts told them otherwise.". She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He established an International Safety Zone in Nanking before the Japanese soldiers arrived from Shanghai. Then, in high school, Iris became determined to revive the school's literary magazine, and quickly enlisted a staff and a sponsor. 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. So, in return for performing a short, Chaplinesque shuffle, he would be rewarded with a handful of scallions. Kamen coined the phrase to Iris Chang it years before her friends death. She came alive before crowds -- she loved to share, and she was interested in other people's lives. Iris met the man she would marry in 1989, when she was a sophomore in journalism at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. She would just laugh.". It was very painful for me to think about, even then. Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. Iris Chang. "I had considered running away, but I will never be able to escape from myself and my thoughts. 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. Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, ended her life with a pistol on November 9, 2004. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. "I knew Iris was not right," her mother said. 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. 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. Long after college, Changs drive, intelligence, and tireless research continued to put her ahead of her peers. "When I was obsessed about Iris, my husband and my son suggested taking me to see a therapist, but I said no," said Chang. She promised to buy less volatile powder. ", Christopher was born Aug. 31 that year. Most of the calls were from women, said Betty Hong, executive director of the Oakland clinic. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Speculation that she may have been killed by Japanese ultranationalists continued to turn up on Web logs and Internet chat rooms. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) "But she worked herself way too hard when she was there. ", Rabiner said Iris "found her voice" in promoting "Rape of Nanking." ", The Gate of Heaven was well named. After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. "It boggles the imagination, what you went through," she said. And Iris would buy lunch and dinner for everybody, and they all thought it was great. When her internship was up, Iris was offered a permanent job at AP. A book packager wanted to publish a children's version of 'The Chinese in America. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. There's a girl who wants to get into Submit,' " Mr. Chang recalled. "Iris thought it was an injustice. "Every day she seemed to have something new. In the picture, Iris was standing, her head bowed in prayer like a saint or an angel. "Iris was suffering from clinical depression," she said, "and it deepened rapidly over a period of about three months. ", 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. She harbored hundreds of Chinese women and children there during the occupation. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. Iris Chang's many accolades include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award, the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and two honorary doctorates (the College of Wooster in Ohio, and California State University at Hayward). Chang tells the story of a rocket scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, who was born in China in 1911 and educated in the United States. 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. Box. In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose.[22]. I would tell her, 'You can care too much about what people say about you.' There, Iris had lengthy conversations with then-President Bill Clinton and gave him a signed copy of "The Rape of Nanking.". She said she was confronted by a man who said, "You will NOT continue writing this. " Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle, iris chang at Bataan tank in wisconsin courtesy of the bataan commenorative research project, Iris Chang at 7 years old courtesy the chang family, iris changs senior picture from university high The war she lost raged withinby Heidi Benson. Iris Chang died on November 9, 2004. The medicine made her feel sluggish. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. Now, in THE CHINESE IN AMERICA: A Narrative History (Viking; On-sale Date: April 28, 2003) Chang explores the history of one of this countrys fastest growing ethnic groups. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? The parents of Iris Chang sit close together, their faces drawn. She was 36. They made an appointment to meet Wednesday at the firing range. While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. Meanwhile, Iris was one of a dozen journalism undergraduates chosen for an accelerated Associated Press training program. The book hit the stores at Christmas, a tough selling season for serious nonfiction. Those who survived spent the rest of the war in a bleak prison camp; some were shipped to Japan as slave laborers. " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". She wanted to be independent, to think for herself. Open sky surrounds broad, rolling lawns at the crest of a hill. "We spoke for two hours, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.," Rabiner said. 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 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. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. [20], On November 9, 2004, at about 9 a.m., Chang was found dead in the driver's seat of her Oldsmobile Alero 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. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. A report from the San Francisco Chronicle stated that news of her suicide had a strong impact on survivors of the Nanking Massacre and the Chinese community in general.[20]. She went back to bed. 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. The cycle of mood shifts that distinguish the disease -- from manic highs to depressive lows -- differs with every sufferer. "She also liked to beat the system. Home Deep Cleaning - Standard; Home Deep Cleaning - Premium; Home Deep Cleaning - Supreme On top of that, she wasn't sleeping. The foyer was filled with enormous bouquets sent by well-wishers. 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. He and Iris were married in August 1991 in Champaign-Urbana. Doctors at Norton Hospital had diagnosed "brief reactive psychosis," her father said. "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. 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. ", The book's popularity meant a lengthy book tour. You have a young kid. Scope and Contents note One compact sound cassette. She passed the iron gates of Calvary Catholic Cemetery, where marble statues of winged angels, their heads bowed in prayer, mark the graves of early settlers. ", The book rocketed Iris into the pantheon of American intellectuals. It was as if he were back in Bataan. Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United . Somehow, she always bounced back, energized by her role as spokesperson for a movement. [19] Chang was also reportedly deeply disturbed by much of the subject matter of her research. Thu 11/8, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299. It seemed like a lot of odd behavior started around that time, Kamen says. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She described finding threatening notes on her car. Kamen loved Chang, but she was determined not to "write a Hallmark card," either. Still, the depression failed to lift. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. ", Her mother added, "She was in therapy all the time, but it didn't help, and she took the medicine on and off. The number of calls to Asian Community Mental Health Services spiked in the days after Iris Chang's death. 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. So she went back to bed and I watched her until she fell asleep.". "Every time we set a rule, she always tried to find some way to get around it. Event on 11/19/04 in Los Altos Hills Eric Luse / The Chronicle Ran on: 11-20-2004 Brett soon grew concerned that Iris was overextended. She confirmed the danger of psychiatric drugs and antidepressants after reading publications by psychiatrist Peter Breggin, as well as bio-psychiatry researcher and psychiatrist, Martin Teicher. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. ", During two years of research, Iris made significant historical discoveries. Christopher Douglas was born on 26 August 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. [19], When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. And she believed her research produced irrevocable proof of Japanese atrocities. At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. "Civilization is tissue thin," Iris wrote. But this time, "she appeared unhappy," the manager told investigators. Her mother concurred: "At AP, she worked so hard she couldn't sleep. . When you do not, you live not just by the day -- but by the minute. Iris' reluctance to take medication may indicate the difficulty she had accepting her illness as an illness. 36 year-old Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who wrote the best-selling . 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. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. We called him every day, sometimes two or three times a day. ", Brett voiced a similar conclusion. Iris Chang. Education ", Iris' parents retired in early 2001, and after Christopher was born, they moved from Illinois and into a home in the same complex. 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. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. It happens every day of the week, and people just don't know it because people don't talk about it.". Iris Chang. Homicide detectives would eventually determine that Iris had loaded all six chambers of the gun, placed the barrel between her lips, and fired. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. She was seeing a therapist two to three times a week, Brett said, but fought against having family members participate. "Iris was really good at putting her best face forward, even when she was totally exhausted, so I didn't really perceive that there was a real problem," Brett said. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. $ 4.79 - $ 21.29. I believe that Iris was very strong-willed and whatever she wanted to do, she would do. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" "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. Her friendship with Iris, Culliton said, "lasted from the day she walked in as a student -- in effect, to the day she died.". She just seemed to be more driven and to have more zest for life than anyone I'd ever met. 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. "Most lived in dark, squalid apartments cluttered with the debris of poverty and heavy with mildew and humidity," she wrote. "She contacted people who'd been lost for years, dug up records that nobody ever knew existed. Her long-distance engagement to Brett entered its second year. We've seen staged suicides and we've seen homicides. "Iris was impatient. It will extremely ease you to look guide . At Johns Hopkins, Iris studied playwriting, fiction, poetry and science writing. 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. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. Along with fear for her safety, Iris' illness generated feelings of self- blame. I am doing this because I am too weak to withstand the years of pain and agony ahead.". It's a date he won't forget. 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. ', "Much of the conversation was upbeat. So she took a little bit and then she stopped -- and it shouldn't be stopped like that. christopher douglas iris chang; christopher douglas iris chang. About the suicide of her own daughter, Chang believed it was probably the side effects of psychiatric medication that led Iris to end her life. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. 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. But for us to be able to write nonfiction, the stories of our lives -- on a lot of levels, it was revolutionary. He stopped and honked but there was no response. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. But soon she found herself drawn to a subject just as dark. Her husband, Shau-Jin, is a theoretical physicist. She had worn herself out on a book tour for the paperback release of The Chinese in America and spent some time in a mental health ward in Kentucky in August 2004. He could see the travel was taking a toll on her. They met again at Taiwan University -- and yet again when each won a science scholarship to Harvard in 1962. Iris called to say she had found Tsien's son and had interviewed him in Mandarin. ", "Chinese Americans grew up hearing about this forgotten holocaust," said Zia, whose grandmother was killed in Nanking. Please reload the page and try again. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. It's a disease. It may be true that Iris Chang committed suicide. "I'd left a message -- I actually had business to talk about. ", On her trip to China, she met with survivors from Nanking. [13], Chang's visibility as a public figure increased with her final work, The Chinese in America. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" "Twice I broke down and had to leave the room.". ", 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. Opting for a master's degree, she was accepted by the Graduate Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University and moved to Baltimore in 1990. The lead balls must be individually prepared, packed with gunpowder and topped with a percussive cap. Here are some photos of Iris's son Christopher enjoying his spring break in Florida +10 3535 4 comments Share She wore herself out." turkey club sandwich nutrition Uncovering hot babes since 1919.. christopher douglas iris chang. 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. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. Christopher Douglas Retweeted. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. "It's amazing when you watch Iris do research," Brett said. It showed that at times history has to be written by a member of the community, out of a passion the author shares with the community. He was a happy baby, with his mother's jet-black hair. Newsweek ran an excerpt, and soon Iris was a familiar face on TV news shows. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang,[1] and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. 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. Iris Chang received several other awards, including the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award. A local veteran, Arthur Kelly, who was assisting her research helped her check into Norton Psychiatric Hospital in Louisville, where she was diagnosed with reactive psychosis, placed on heavy medication for three days and then released to her parents. The newlyweds settled in Santa Barbara, and Iris began writing the book about Tsien. At the time, she was several months into research for her fourth book, about the Bataan Death March. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. . Her first, Thread of the Silkworm (Basic Books, 1995)[8] tells the life story of the Chinese professor, Hsue-Shen Tsien (or Qian Xuesen) during the Red Scare in the 1950s. "Over a year and a half, she visited 65 cities," Brett said. "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. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. photo by Tim Kao/the chronicle, Event on 3/6/05 in San Francisco. After dinner Monday night, Iris returned a call to her agent. Iris got a massage. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. ", Despite support from esteemed historians and journalists, including Stephen Ambrose and George Will, some judged Iris' version of history too subjective. I have no evidence of foul play. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. "You'll have to forgive me, but I find myself often deeply affected by these stories. Every suicide is the tragic terminus of a tangle of roads, a route unique as a thumbprint. 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. Throughout her life, Chang was instrumental in capturing Asian-American history. "We saw cartoons where she was portrayed as this woman with a great big mouth," Brett said. She did, and, starting in November 2003, would make four trips to meet with Bataan vets -- in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. "I wanted to give support to families that suffered the same kind of loss, and it really worked in that way. "It is a scary, dangerous and terrifyingly confusing time. "Yes!" One picture she sent showed Iris hugging Martel and his wife. The manager knew her as a customer and an author -- Iris and Brett ate there often. Chang tinggal di Sunnyvale, California pada tahun-tahun terakhir hidupnya. So we finally started trying, and then we had our son in 2002. "This was lying in our basement. Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. 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. They married in 1964, and each earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1967. One of the veterans -- a colonel she had planned to meet in Louisville -- came to the hotel. ", Rabiner believes that neither the subject matter of her work nor the intensity of her work habits precipitated Iris' manic-depressive symptoms. 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