At 12:40 p.m., she stopped for lunch at FujiSan Sushi in Milpitas Square. Chang, 36 . 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. "You'll have to forgive me, but I find myself often deeply affected by these stories. 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 . 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. She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. For her, it was a relief," said Masin. Iris Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1989. He immediately called the police. 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. My sincere condolences to Mr. Douglas and to young Christopher. And she loved it. The book hit the stores at Christmas, a tough selling season for serious nonfiction. After Iris Chang's Oldsmobile was found off Highway 17 on Tuesday morning, Nov. 9, the California Highway Patrol was called to the scene. She just knows how to do things," he said, tenderly smoothing out a page. The parents of Iris Chang sit close together, their faces drawn. 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. But there was none. 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. "Iris asked me to tell about atrocities," he said. I have no evidence of foul play. IRIS CHANG, Author, "The Rape of Nanking:" Well, in 1937, in December, the Japanese swept into the city of Nanking and within six to eight weeks, they had massacred more . And then there's the issue of the model minority. After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, she pursued a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. She never did sleep very well or eat very well.". She wrote three books, which made her visible as a public figure. The Monache tribe and Southern California Yokut tribes made flour from iris seeds. "I knew Iris was not right," her mother said. ", Rabiner became worried, too. 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. . She parked in front of Reed's Sport Shop, a redwood-shingled emporium that sells fishing, cycling and hunting gear. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. View this record View. Chang said she's very grateful to her husband for being extremely supportive in her writing process. Iris Chang rang the doorbell on Ed Martel's front porch in Kenosha, Wis., on Dec. 4, 2003. The number of calls to Asian Community Mental Health Services spiked in the days after Iris Chang's death. After the interview, they kept up an active correspondence. The lead balls must be individually prepared, packed with gunpowder and topped with a percussive cap. She wanted to be independent, to think for herself. Waking at 5 a.m., Brett saw Iris was gone. Contents 1 Background 2 Writing credits 3 Presenting 3.1 Acting credits 4 Publications 5 References Douglas iris had many uses in Native American cultures. (The family would not name specific drugs.). (Photo/Robert Spencer)on 5/5/03 in New York. Times Staff Writer. He went to her desk in her upstairs office and found a note next to the computer. Soon they were both teaching and conducting research at the University of Illinois. "It is a scary, dangerous and terrifyingly confusing time. ", Iris was a serious child, her mother recalled. Martel cried, "You son of a bitch! After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. Normally, Iris never did interviews alone. She didn't just ask what had happened, she asked what they had felt. [10] Based on the book, an American documentary film, Nanking, was released in 2007. Turning right, she pulled into the strip mall across the street from the school. Christopher Douglas-Wood. Newsweek ran an excerpt, and soon Iris was a familiar face on TV news shows. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. Though troubling to realize, those things that protect us most -- faith, family, health, financial stability -- are often powerless against mental illness. A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. "Depression is a silent epidemic among Asian Americans because we tend not to seek help soon enough," Hong said. Chang, who lived in San Jose, shot herself to death Nov. 9 in her car, parked along a rural road south of Los Gatos. [4] During her time in college she also worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, and wrote six front-page articles over the course of one year. 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." We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. "There was a time earlier, in September, when we were worried, but she seemed to come out of that. The correspondent was Sgt. Box. Editor's note: An earlier version of this article had the incorrect location for Ying-Ying Chang's book signing. When she tried finding books about the subject in Champaign Public Library, she found there were none.[3]. "I had considered running away, but I will never be able to escape from myself and my thoughts. There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. Director. I don't know how many printings it went through. At 14, Iris was studying advanced math and decided to join an all-boys computer club called Submit. Brett's father, Ken Douglas, had flown out to keep his son company. But just in time, Iris changed the subject, prompting him to tell a lighter story. But now that legacy has also found a home in a museum in China dedicated to her work. 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. She paid the gunsmith $10. American actor who played the soap opera roles of Dylan Moody on One Life to Live (from 1993 until 1997) and Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald on . "She was afraid of him when he showed up," Smith said. "There's a book I must do," she said. People tend to think that clinical depression is like a bad-hair day. The conference had been sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia. 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. 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. "There were up and down periods," he said. She would have a team of three vets and their children and their wives. "It's a double-edged sword. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. Opting for a master's degree, she was accepted by the Graduate Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University and moved to Baltimore in 1990. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. 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. January 26, 2008, Sunday Star-Times magazine The motorist who went to investigate the white Oldsmobile parked just off highway 17, which runs between San Jose and Santa Cruz in Northern California, was a county employee. $1 Million. She was 22. Other parts were not. She preferred to meet someone in each town who could introduce her to the veterans and their families. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. 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. 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. 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. After publication of the book, Chang campaigned to persuade the Japanese government to apologize for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation. We always had to argue all the exceptions she could think of. "Iris was a phenomenon," said one of her former teachers at Johns Hopkins, Ann Finkbeiner. Both were born in mainland China. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. Iris Chang killed herself on Nov 9, 2004. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to. I've been thinking about this kid for ten years, ever since I learned of his story. Later, Iris told interviewers that, as a child, "it was hard for me to even visualize how bad it was, because the stories seemed almost mythical -- people being chopped into pieces, the Yangtze River running red with blood. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND That night, she had dinner with her husband of 13 years, Brett Douglas. 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. We need people to be covering atrocities and mental illness and genocide. He established an International Safety Zone in Nanking before the Japanese soldiers arrived from Shanghai. PLEASE VERIFY RIGHTS. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. 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. The pool, a turquoise rectangle surrounded by pines, sat at the center of the village-like complex. "Iris was much in demand and gave many talks," Brett recalled, adding with a laugh, "she was schmoozing the whole time." "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. Liked by Chris Douglas An important milestone for SkipTech, the successful test of our prototype battery Liked by Chris Douglas The scientist who almost made Mark Zuckerberg president of the. Either she was watching Christopher or I was watching Christopher, or she was working or I was working. 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. 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. Iris pushed herself "to be the best possible mother and the best possible writer," Brett said. Iris Chang is best known for two things: writing the explosive bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," and then killing herself. In early 2004, she traveled to promote the paperback version of "The Chinese in America." But today Christopher is healthy. "Every time we set a rule, she always tried to find some way to get around it. Her head rested against the window. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. 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]. She promised to buy less volatile powder. After dinner Monday night, Iris returned a call to her agent. Ultimately, three notes were found, all dated Monday, Nov. 8, 2004. 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? In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. 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 and launching her career as a full-time author and lecturer. 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. She was 36. He showed her how to load the gun and tried to give her basic safety and handling instructions. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. 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. Iris dubbed him the "Oskar Schindler of Nanking.". and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer. "Most authors are worn out after five or six cities." "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. "It's been too short.". At the same time, her foes said her suicide proved that "Rape of Nanking" was nothing but lies. In a funny kind of way, she was resolute, she was calm. John Rylands Research Institute and Library. "It's amazing when you watch Iris do research," Brett said. They had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of his mother's death in 2004. "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. ", The book rocketed Iris into the pantheon of American intellectuals. It was as if he were back in Bataan. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". Messages of . The Highway Patrol then called the Santa Clara Sheriff's homicide unit and detective Sgt. She was mad. The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didn't emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. Iris Shun-Ru Chang 19683282004119 Prof. Shau-Jin Chang (Physics Professor, University of Illinois) Mother: Dr. Ying-Ying Chang (Microbiologist, University of Illinois) Husband: Dr. Brett Douglas (engineer, m. 17-Aug-1991) Son: Christopher (b. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) Douglas Chang, MD, PhD is a board-certified physical medicine and rehabilitation physician who specializes in the non-surgical treatment of back/neck pain and other musculoskeletal injuries. 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. We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. 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. She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." 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 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. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. "She didn't like other people taking control, so she resisted" his attending any of her therapy sessions. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. 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 Rabiner had been looking for someone conversant in the sciences and in Mandarin to write a biography of Hsue-Shen Tsien. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. First she thought it would be a couple of weeks" before she improved, "but we tried to convince her that it would be several months, because that is what the doctors said. "We wondered what we did with all of our time before we had a son," Brett said, "because of the amount of time that a little one involves. ", Rising from his chair, her father pulled a small red leather volume from the bookshelf. She used a post office box, never her home address, for mail. It was well- reviewed, though it never sold in great numbers. The book, "Thread of the Silkworm," was published in 1995. much beloved author of the books: "The Chinese in America" and "The Rape of Nanking" Christopher Douglas writes and directs the improbably long-running career of uber- thesp Nicholas Craig ( Nigel Planer) whose autobiography I, An Actor was first published in 1988, and who has continued to appear on TV and onstage ever since. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that affects one in every 70 people. "Why did he have to toy with me like that?" I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. When Brett woke to find Iris gone early Monday morning, he called San Jose police, reporting that she was missing, on medication and a suicide risk. Kamen says that despite her worldliness, Chang never developed the distancing filters that aid many journalists. Along with fear for her safety, Iris' illness generated feelings of self- blame. File photo of Iris Chang and her husband Brett Douglas with Hillary Rodham Clinton. Date Of Birth. At the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos Hills, the photograph stood on an easel before the chapel. "Civilization is tissue thin," Iris wrote. [13], Chang's visibility as a public figure increased with her final work, The Chinese in America. Iris Chang has a total of 1 spouses, Spouse:Brett Douglas(1991- 9 November 2004) (her death) (1 child) What is the zodiac sign of Iris Chang? The 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. 2002) University: BS Journalism, University of . I promise not to hurt myself. When they were both journalism students in the late 80s at the University of Illinois in Urbana, it was Chang who won the prized internships. . Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, ended her life with a pistol on November 9, 2004. In 1997, Iris Changs The Rape of Nanking was published to great critical acclaim and quickly became a national bestseller. 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. Reader's Digest devoted a cover story to her. Also known as Chris Douglas, Christopher M Lefler, Douglas Christopher. With few rations, little ammunition and no reinforcements, 70,000 American and Filipino troops held off the Japanese for months. You have a young kid. . He explained that the gunpowder she had was unsafe to use indoors. Her second book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997),[9] was published on the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre and was motivated in part by her own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. This is for the biographers., Suicide, Kamen observes, is in a lot of ways the ultimate act of control. 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. Paula Kamen digs deep into the ambitious life and tragic death of her most successful friend. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. ", Christopher was born Aug. 31 that year. Kamen, the author of three previous books (Feminist Fatale, on Third Wave feminism; Her Way, a study of womens sexuality in the 1990s; and All in My Head, about her years-long struggle with chronic pain), says with Chang as her subject she wanted to focus on the dark side, the complexities and tensions we had with each other.. It's never boring with her -- it's interesting." Iris Chang March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004 As a student of history & a literature hound, Iris Chang's death in 2004 came as a shock. Speaking of the night they met, Brett said, "Iris was beautiful, vivacious -- and sober. This was not her first visit. Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' On the far wall, a gallery of mounted deer heads marked her destination: the hunting department. One by one, each dropped a single purple iris or one red rose into the grave, saying, "Goodbye, Iris.". 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