"Christopher sensed that something was going wrong with Iris," Brett said. [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. . Iris would be working solo. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. ", On her trip to China, she met with survivors from Nanking. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. 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. Copyright 2011 irischang.net All Rights Reserved. "We saw cartoons where she was portrayed as this woman with a great big mouth," Brett said. The conference had been sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia. There, Iris had lengthy conversations with then-President Bill Clinton and gave him a signed copy of "The Rape of Nanking.". Chang, 36 . She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, when she was just 36 years old. "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. "Clearly, Iris was a strong, smart and directed young woman," Rabiner said. Later, he would tell police that she "seemed distracted or aloof.". "The onus is on us, as Western medical professionals, to be aware of cultural influences -- and to be proactive in educating family members and the patient when there is a first encounter with mental illness," he said. So she went back to bed and I watched her until she fell asleep.". ", As Iris' good friend Barbara Masin said, "Those who are close to her did everything that they possibly could have done. Success as an author made Iris Chang a public figure. ", Iris connected so well with these veterans because each of their stories mattered to her. The whole process, how she planned everything, is very, very methodical., Kamen says Chang never understood how her drive pissed people off. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana . "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. Chang wrote three books documenting the experiences of Chinese and Chinese Americans in history. Chang adalah anak perempuan dari dua profesor yang lahir di Tiongkok yang kemudian berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat dari Taiwan. 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. She was 36. Chang, with a Ph.D. in biological chemistry from Harvard University, had a scientist's career until her retirement in 2002. It also showed publishing houses that there is a market for books about the Chinese experience. He stopped and honked but there was no response. She paid the gunsmith $10. There's almost zero chance that the kid isn't autistic. 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.". In three days, her parents came to take her home. "A lot of people -- depending on how disturbed they are -- feel that people are plotting against them." We'll be sending you The Daily Reader starting soon. Iris learned to read at age 4. She wanted to be independent, to think for herself. In 2017, the Iris Chang Memorial Hall was built in Huai'an, China. Iris Chang, who has committed suicide aged 36, was one of the most promising historians in America and a vigorous champion of human rights. And she was determined not to be hospitalized again. Later, Brett learned that the nanny had urged Iris to cancel the trip. "We spoke for two hours, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.," Rabiner said. 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. "She sat down and cross-examined me like a district attorney for five solid hours," said Martel, 86, one of the last remaining survivors of the Bataan Death March of World War II. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. She was trying to be a top-notch mother and she was also trying to prepare for her trip.". ", Iris called Rabiner. Her mother concurred: "At AP, she worked so hard she couldn't sleep. "She was afraid of him when he showed up," Smith said. 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. Chang also lectures frequently before business, university and other groups interested in human rights, World War II history, Cold War history, the Asian American experience, Sino-American relations, and the future of American civil liberties. He explained that the gunpowder she had was unsafe to use indoors. "Every time we set a rule, she always tried to find some way to get around it. They kept in touch every day by e-mail. Somehow, she always bounced back, energized by her role as spokesperson for a movement. Chang is survived by Bretton Douglas, her husband, and son, Christopher. It seemed like a lot of odd behavior started around that time, Kamen says. 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 dinner Monday night, Iris returned a call to her agent. Iris' reluctance to take medication may indicate the difficulty she had accepting her illness as an illness. ", "Chinese Americans grew up hearing about this forgotten holocaust," said Zia, whose grandmother was killed in Nanking. 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. Slowing down, he repeated, "It's interesting. It was important to me that the world knew what happened in Nanking back in 1937." She was assigned to the AP office in Chicago. She was 36. Director. 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. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. He is an actor, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Playing Mona Lisa (2000) and Cyber Bandits (1995). . ", Baker explained his conclusion: "There's no evidence that any kind of conspiracy caused her death. Meanwhile, they decided they had put their plans for a family on hold long enough. The other diarist -- the "Anne Frank of Nanking" -- was an Illinois woman named Minnie Vautrin. The next morning, Friday, Nov. 19, dawned cold, clear and sunny. Her parents saw her off that morning. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? 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. "She was like a battalion commander," Meldahl said. Her husband, Shau-Jin, is a theoretical physicist. She worked at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before devoting But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. This could be a one-time event or it could signal the onset of bipolar disorder, the doctors told them. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. Ying-Ying is a biochemist. Penzance, Cornwall, TR20. "People who are in great treatment, who have all the love and support in the world, can still commit suicide," Jamison, author of "Understanding Suicide," has said. She was 22. At the same time, her foes said her suicide proved that "Rape of Nanking" was nothing but lies. "She ventured into a minefield of unexploded ordnance.". The news hit Nanjing fast and hard. The coroner's report, dated Dec. 23, 2004, stated: "Based on the medical investigator's report and the autopsy findings, Iris Chang, a 36-year-old Asian female, died from a self-inflicted intra-oral gunshot wound. Share this on . Tell us what happened. They went to bed at midnight. 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. "Iris used to say she never understood why people would commit suicide, so she was definitely not a suicidal type," said Chang. Brett said, "It was, I think, 21 cities in 28 days. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. View this record View. Some 8,000 died on the notorious "death march." At the time of her death, Chang was researching a fourth book about the Bataan Death March and was promoting The Chinese in America. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. Di sana ia belajar di SMA Laboratorium Universitas Urbana, Illinois dan lulus pada 1985. It's a date he won't forget. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Her mother hoped Iris would take on a lighter topic for her next book, especially with a baby in the house. Family members say he shows no signs of autism. Anthony Meldahl, a supply sergeant with the Ohio National Guard who had admired Iris' work. I will stop by to visit my parents then go for a long walk. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that affects one in every 70 people. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". 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. She lived in San Jose, California in the final years of her life.[6][7]. But as she began to manifest symptoms of bipolar illness, she perceived them as a failure of will. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" They are the ones who brought her up." She hadn't ever heard much of Ray Charles' music before, and when we got home, she went upstairs and was browsing all kinds of information on Ray Charles on the Internet.". At 14, Iris was studying advanced math and decided to join an all-boys computer club called Submit. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominenet author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. "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. 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 contacted people who'd been lost for years, dug up records that nobody ever knew existed. I was worried. She was also promoting The Chinese in America. 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 pushed herself "to be the best possible mother and the best possible writer," Brett said. Turning right, she pulled into the strip mall across the street from the school. Overwhelming response to the piece convinced Kamen to expand her meditation on Changs phenomenal life and her shocking death. By the time that was done, it was already eight years. He showed her how to load the gun and tried to give her basic safety and handling instructions. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" View Christopher Douglas results in Ohio (OH) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. Here are some photos of Iris's son Christopher enjoying his spring break in Florida +10 3434 4 comments Share 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. photo by Tim Kao/the chronicle, Event on 3/6/05 in San Francisco. [16][17], Chang suffered a nervous breakdown in August 2004, which her family, friends, and doctors attributed in part to constant sleep deprivation, dozens of herbal supplements,[18] and heavy doses of psychologically damaging prescription medication. CHANG2-C-29APR03-DD-HO.jpg HANDOUT PHOTO/VERIFY RIGHTS AND USEAGE, memorial20_099_el.jpg Just what had happened to Chang was a mystery. But, her father said, "In spite of many sessions, Iris did not tell the therapist her deepest thoughts. He recalled telling Iris about the worst of his Bataan experiences. "Iris could write two or three stories a day, and they loved her because she wrote so fast," he said. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. "Iris asked me to tell about atrocities," he said. "The stress of writing this book and living with this horror on a daily basis caused my weight to plummet," she said. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." Iris Chang lived in San Jose . Iris met the man she would marry in 1989, when she was a sophomore in journalism at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana. "When we first got married, we said we were going to start trying to have a child after four years," Brett said. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. That's why she was such a powerful role model for so many Chinese Americans. We didn't see each other as much as we did in the past. She was easily hurt, though sometimes she didn't show it. Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. "Twice I broke down and had to leave the room.". Now, the family rushed to learn everything they could about her illness. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. 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. Iris Chang's grave faces west toward wooded hillsides painted with November's glorious reds and yellows, colors of consolation before winter's starkness. Iris Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." Iris told her mother that working on it was a vacation after "Rape of Nanking. ", Christopher was born Aug. 31 that year. Other parts were not. 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." Asians were the first immigrant community that 'made it,' and we should all be doctors and lawyers." "It is because of these types [] By now, Brett had taken a job with a Santa Barbara engineering firm. They married in 1964, and each earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1967. "This high school alone lost 200 students -- 28 were with the Bataan company. The Rape of Nanking, about the 1937 massacre of as many as 350,000 soldiers and civilians by Japans imperial army, had been denounced by the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., and caricatures of Chang appeared in right-wing Japanese newspapers. She would have a team of three vets and their children and their wives. asked Iris, knowing Martel had been saved from near starvation by the brushy mustache he wore. 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. They had spent one hour together. She came alive before crowds -- she loved to share, and she was interested in other people's lives. Paula Kamen. In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. But now that legacy has also found a home in a museum in China dedicated to her work. The Monache tribe and Southern California Yokut tribes made flour from iris seeds. 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. 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. "It's going to be very emotional to talk about Iris in Cupertino," said Chang. 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. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. Soon they were both teaching and conducting research at the University of Illinois. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. "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. 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. Her last Bataan trip was scheduled for July 2004. "She didn't like other people taking control, so she resisted" his attending any of her therapy sessions. They made an appointment. People tend to think that clinical depression is like a bad-hair day. But just before Iris left for Kentucky -- the last week of July 2004 -- a family emergency forced the teacher to cancel. ", Rabiner became worried, too. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. She just seemed to be more driven and to have more zest for life than anyone I'd ever met. When her body was discovered, Iris Chang had been dead for two hours. These were considered her finest traits. 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. Iris Chang. And through the months afterward, I couldnt help but think of Minnie and why she captured Iris imagination as a historian. After leaving China, Vautrin suffered a breakdown; she committed suicide in 1941.v, Tue 11/6, 7:30 PM, Barbaras Bookstore, 1218 S. Halsted, 312-413-2665, Wed 11/7, 7 PM, 57th Street Books, 1301 E. 57th, 773-684-1300. "Iris was very sensitive. The Rape of Nanking placed her in great demand as a speaker and as an interview subject, and, more broadly, as a spokesperson for the viewpoint that the Japanese government had not done enough to compensate victims of their invasion of China. Includes Address (11) Phone (8) Email (3) See Results. But there has to be dialogue about how to do that in the long term., In All in My Head, Kamen documents how she learned to slow down and come to terms with a life of chronic pain. Opting for a master's degree, she was accepted by the Graduate Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University and moved to Baltimore in 1990. Then she got back up again. iris during college years with mr and mrs chang and brother michael courtesy chang family, Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. 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 know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Shed already spoken with Changs widower, Brett Douglas, and knew about the fertility treatments the couple had undergone in order to have their son, Christopher, who was born in 2002. But Kalcic and his employees did not know how unusual Iris Chang was: a world- renowned author whose work had stirred international controversy. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. . Chang had used her diary as a source, and Vautrins story figures prominently in her book. "We sat down and started talking, and we had a lot to say. In her international bestseller, "The Rape of Nanking," Chang examined one of the most tragic chapters of World War II: the mass execution of soldiers and theslaughter, rape and torture oftens of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former capital of China. The report stated that Iris had been taking two medications: the mood stabilizer Depakote, an anticonvulsant similar to lithium; and a smaller dosage of Risperdal, an antipsychotic drug commonly used to control mania, which is also thought to reduce suicide risk. THEY ARE AT THE CHINESE AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER / CULTURE TO CULTURE FOUNDATION. "There is an aspect of paranoia in the majority of suicides," Baker said. including Chang's husband Brett Douglas and the couple's 2-year-old son, Christopher. Her last, widely-acclaimed book focused on Chinese immigrants and t heir descendents in the United States their sacrifices, their achievements and their contributions to the fabric of American culture, an epic journey spanning more than 150 years. He and Emily Harper both appeared on the soap opera Passions. Finally, the group stood to sing a halting but heartfelt rendition of "Amazing Grace.". Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. This kind of "black powder" is unstable and unsafe indoors, so he insisted she first take the can outside. The Nanking book had "made Iris sad. Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." Iris Chang - The woman who loved truth The motorist who went to investigate the white Oldsmobile parked off highway 17, which runs between San Jose and Santa Cruz in northern California, was a. "It's a double-edged sword. $1 Million. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. Our kitchen remodeling San Jose team is ready to help right now! 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