This was not her first visit. That such a beautiful woman would be remembered is not unusual. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" "Iris was suffering from clinical depression," she said, "and it deepened rapidly over a period of about three months. There is always free will. But there was none. ", Her mother added, "She was in therapy all the time, but it didn't help, and she took the medicine on and off. 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 . She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. But the gun jammed. Some became overwrought with emotion during the interviews and broke down into tears. She didn't just ask what had happened, she asked what they had felt. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. 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. Worse, Chang had started out as a computer science major and switched with Kamens encouragement. For the Wisconsin trip, she had hooked up with people from the Bataan Commemorative Research Project, a historical archive and Web site created by faculty and students at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Ill. "World War II hit the town of Maywood really hard," said Ian Smith, chair of the school's history department. "Christopher sensed that something was going wrong with Iris," Brett said. The medicine was probably not right for her.". "She also liked to beat the system. (Another of Changs unfinished projects was a book on defeating the biological clock.) Brett said, "It was, I think, 21 cities in 28 days. Chang said she's very grateful to her husband for being extremely supportive in her writing process. 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). ", At the same time, torrents of hate mail came in, Brett said. Iris learned to read at age 4. "It's going to be very emotional to talk about Iris in Cupertino," said Chang. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. Iris Chang (Author, . THEY ARE AT THE CHINESE AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER / CULTURE TO CULTURE FOUNDATION. The foyer was filled with enormous bouquets sent by well-wishers. Tell us what happened. I was not alone in eating Iris dust, Kamen noted ruefully in an essay she wrote for Salon shortly after Changs death. "It's been too short.". Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. 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. She would just laugh.". Culliton was sufficiently impressed by Iris' talent to recommend her to Susan Rabiner, editorial director of Basic Books, the "serious nonfiction" division of HarperCollins Publishers. When, at 36, Chang shot herself in 2004 on an empty stretch. Through a third party, the colonel declined to be interviewed. 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. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. To me, it was part of that whole intensity that made Iris able to do what she went on to do. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." "Statement of Iris Chang" stated: I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. It's never boring with her -- it's interesting." When you do not, you live not just by the day but by the minute. Please forgive me. But Kamens book, unlike, say, Truth & Beauty, novelist Ann Patchetts controversial memoir of her thorny friendship with the late writer Lucy Grealy, relies very little upon navel-gazing rumination. [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 bio was written at the time of Iris Chang's posthumous inauguration into the 2006 Illini Media Hall of Fame. ", Iris took her advice, though the book she began was enormously ambitious. "Then we came home, and that was our last weekend together," he said, fighting back tears. That is, successful and invulnerable. Haunted by the belief that she had failed, Vautrin suffered a breakdown in 1940. ". Slowing down, he repeated, "It's interesting. After two years at Princeton, the family moved to a Midwestern college town, Champaign-Urbana, in Illinois. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". 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 The book, "Thread of the Silkworm," was published in 1995. "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. ", Three days before Iris' death, Brett dreamed up a special weekend, just for her. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". "He immediately agreed to read my manuscript and write the introduction when I asked him.". "So they tried to make it harder and harder." 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? Both were born in mainland China. But some scholars felt that she was a little too involved with her subject matter. "For three days they gave her medication, the first time in her life." Irrefutably, Iris Chang won many battles in her fight for justice. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. "There's a book I must do," she said. That book would sell half a million copies. Stress does not cause mental illness, but it can worsen the symptoms, doctors say. [19], When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. But Rabiner had been looking for someone conversant in the sciences and in Mandarin to write a biography of Hsue-Shen Tsien. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. "It's a double-edged sword. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Winning that prize led to dreams of becoming a writer, her father said. 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. He was a happy baby, with his mother's jet-black hair. "We weren't really prepared for the success of the book," Brett said. . She was 36. She feared these vaccinations may have caused him to become autistic. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. Consistent with the style of her earlier works, the book relies heavily on personal accounts, drawing its strong emotional content from their stories. I thought it would break the spell, break the hold of these emotions. 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. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. Back in Illinois one year later, she committed suicide. "She contacted people who'd been lost for years, dug up records that nobody ever knew existed. His daughter, Maddy, remembered the day well, too. During her research, Kamen uncovered secrets that the seemingly always-in-control Chang kept close until near the very end. "Iris always came to us to discuss her problems," her mother said. Iris Chang's grave faces west toward wooded hillsides painted with November's glorious reds and yellows, colors of consolation before winter's starkness. When she tried finding books about the subject in Champaign Public Library, she found there were none.[3]. Chasing the shadows. ", Rabiner became worried, too. Homicide detectives would eventually determine that Iris had loaded all six chambers of the gun, placed the barrel between her lips, and fired. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. "But the side effect of psychiatric drugs changed her personality and prompted her to go that route.". These were considered her finest traits. She wrote her 100-page book proposal in a couple of weeks.". ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. 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. He recalled telling Iris about the worst of his Bataan experiences. Back to Christopher Douglas Page. What made it much easier is that we did have a wonderful nanny to help. At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. ", The Gate of Heaven was well named. 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. Iris would be interviewing them, somebody else would be filming them, somebody else would be photocopying records, and somebody would be sending documents down to UPS. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. ", Their son, who had turned 2 years old in August, became aware of a change. 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. Structural Info. Generally, there's an apology. "Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." View Christopher Douglas results in Ohio (OH) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." Memorial service at Gate of Heaven Cemetary for IRIS CHANG Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' much beloved author of the books: "The Chinese in America" and "The Rape of Nanking" "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. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. "The doctors wanted her to continue in therapy, so sometimes they would go along with her. But this time, "she appeared unhappy," the manager told investigators. [15], Iris Chang Park in San Jose, that opened in November 2019, is a municipal park dedicated to Chang. Christopher Douglas Retweeted. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Iris had been haunted since childhood by the graphic stories she was told about Nanking. ", Later, Iris challenged the Japanese ambassador to a debate on the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. "They drop so fast," the letter had read. The imprisonment of Tsien Hsue-shen during the height of the McCarthy era has been compared to U.S. mistreatment of Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos scientist accused of passing secret nuclear data to mainland China. Iris discovered this group of Chinese American activists after she and Brett moved to Northern California when he got a job with Cisco Systems. Iris Chang died on November 9, 2004. We called him every day, sometimes two or three times a day. The newlyweds settled in Santa Barbara, and Iris began writing the book about Tsien. . 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. "I wanted to give support to families that suffered the same kind of loss, and it really worked in that way. 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. Nov. 11, 2004 12 AM PT. iris during college years with mr and mrs chang and brother michael courtesy chang family, Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. "Iris was so excited when she got the contract for the book," Brett said, recalling how obsessively she ferreted out material. She had gained an international reputation in 1997 when she was only 29 for writing "The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II." In early 2004, she traveled to promote the paperback version of "The Chinese in America." 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. ", 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. But today Christopher is healthy. ", Baker explained his conclusion: "There's no evidence that any kind of conspiracy caused her death. But all of them wanted the opportunity to talk about the massacre before their deaths. ", Rising from his chair, her father pulled a small red leather volume from the bookshelf. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? But it turned out she wasn't sleeping during the day either. "Iris is sensitive, but she got charged up," he recalled. By now, Brett had taken a job with a Santa Barbara engineering firm. "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History" was published by Viking in 2003. (The family would not name specific drugs.). It was hard for her not to react every single time. Includes Address (11) Phone (8) Email (3) See Results. She was easily hurt, though sometimes she didn't show it. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. 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. She promised to buy less volatile powder. 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. Chang is survived by Bretton Douglas, her husband, and son, Christopher. After her death, she became the subject of tributes from fellow writers. "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. Kamen recalls once commenting on how thorough Changs filing system was: her friend replied, It has to be. She walked through the whooshing automatic doors and turned right. Chang had used her diary as a source, and Vautrins story figures prominently in her book. But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. She attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and graduated in 1985. . "She couldn't eat or drink. At the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos Hills, the photograph stood on an easel before the chapel. Director. On Nov. 9, 2004, historian Iris Chang was found dead on a rural California road just south of Los Gatos. View this record View. They just kept saying, 'We'll print another 10,000, we'll print another 10,000.' They approached the open casket, where they stopped, gazed at her for a final time and bowed three times, in Chinese custom. In the backseat, a teddy bear was tucked into the car seat of her 2-year-old son, Christopher. "Iris wanted to talk, and I said, 'You should go to bed, it's 2 in the morning.' She hoped to gain access to a time capsule of audiotapes that was sealed within that tank after the war. of a professor of physics (father) and a microbiologist (mother); graduated in journalist from University of Illinois, 1989; attended Johns Hopkins University; m. Smith said the colonel spent only a short time with her. Chang, who lived in San Jose, shot herself to death Nov. 9 in her car, parked along a rural road south of Los Gatos. A book packager wanted to publish a children's version of 'The Chinese in America. In 1997, Iris Changs The Rape of Nanking was published to great critical acclaim and quickly became a national bestseller. "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. Her head rested against the window. 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. The Monache tribe and Southern California Yokut tribes made flour from iris seeds. $1 Million. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. 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 In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to. 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. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorderwhich Chang rejectedjust two weeks before her suicide. Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. Iris Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. "I knew Iris was not right," her mother said. Iris Chang. "Over a year and a half, she visited 65 cities," Brett said. 36 year-old iris chang, the prominent chinese american And she believed her research produced irrevocable proof of Japanese atrocities. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, when she was just 36 years old. Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! They had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of his mother's death in 2004. 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. Share this on . Ultimately, three notes were found, all dated Monday, Nov. 8, 2004. They married in 1964, and each earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1967. "But gradually, she became very depressed," said her father, adding that her doctor in California prescribed an additional medication, an antidepressant. "Iris was a phenomenon," said one of her former teachers at Johns Hopkins, Ann Finkbeiner. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominenet author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. To soothe the pain of her loss, it would be tempting to seek a single, simple explanation for the suicide of Iris Chang. "But she worked herself way too hard when she was there. You have a young kid. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. Iris Chang killed herself on Nov 9, 2004. "When somebody like Iris makes up their mind that they're going to commit suicide, they're going to do it. But the nanny spoke only Mandarin. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. "When I was obsessed about Iris, my husband and my son suggested taking me to see a therapist, but I said no," said Chang. Getting ready for the trip, Iris went into overdrive. ", After studying the final results of the Santa Clara Country medical examiner's report, Baker closed his investigation March 1, 2005. When you do not, you live not just by the day -- but by the minute. 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. Iris Chang's coffen was carried to a waiting hearst and a short drive to the burial site at the cemetary. Nitin Gadkari 15844 bday balloons. Iris Chang wrote those lines in 1978, when she was 10, and 19 years before her harrowing book, The Rape of Nanking, brought her worldwide acclaim. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. NANKING-02/B/19JULY98/SC/TK=IRIS Chang autographing "Rape of Nanking" Sunday at the Treasure Island exhibit. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 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. "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. He is best known for being a Soap Opera Actor. The event was organized by Global Alliance and the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition. "There was a time earlier, in September, when we were worried, but she seemed to come out of that. . So, in return for performing a short, Chaplinesque shuffle, he would be rewarded with a handful of scallions. She was seeing a therapist two to three times a week, Brett said, but fought against having family members participate. But as she began to manifest symptoms of bipolar illness, she perceived them as a failure of will. By now, Brett was living in Santa Barbara, working toward a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of California. 162 Christopher H Douglas. There are so many kids his age here. 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. At the time, she was several months into research for her fourth book, about the Bataan Death March. She asked me if I was religious -- I said I wasn't, not at all. 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. Chang adalah anak perempuan dari dua profesor yang lahir di Tiongkok yang kemudian berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat dari Taiwan. 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. "Iris was very sensitive. The correspondent was Sgt. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. [14], R.F. 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