Meanwhile, they decided they had put their plans for a family on hold long enough. 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. But Into the Numbers, by the Chinese-American playwright Christopher Chen, genuinely is. Her third book, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History (2003),[11] is a history of Chinese Americans, that argues their treatment as perpetual outsiders by American society. Before dawn, Iris awoke and got into her car. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. 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. . Finally, the group stood to sing a halting but heartfelt rendition of "Amazing Grace.". It was a Thursday, nine days after her death. She was trying to be a top-notch mother and she was also trying to prepare for her trip.". She went to the Chicago Tribune instead, but didn't enjoy "politicking for assignments," Brett said. So was her car. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. 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. So she went back to bed and I watched her until she fell asleep.". She didn't just ask what had happened, she asked what they had felt. 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. That book would sell half a million copies. The Highway Patrol then called the Santa Clara Sheriff's homicide unit and detective Sgt. Generally, there's an apology. At 12:40 p.m., she stopped for lunch at FujiSan Sushi in Milpitas Square. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. On Saturday night they went to dinner at Fresh Choice and out to the movies. Minnie Vautrin, also an alum of U. of I. in Urbana-Champaign, was a missionary and educator who saved thousands of Chinese lives during the Japanese occupation. "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. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. ", Iris' parents retired in early 2001, and after Christopher was born, they moved from Illinois and into a home in the same complex. 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 just seemed to be more driven and to have more zest for life than anyone I'd ever met. Here are some photos of Iris's son Christopher enjoying his spring break in Florida +10 3535 4 comments Share To me, it was part of that whole intensity that made Iris able to do what she went on to do. ", Iris had convinced her doctor to reduce her dosage. It's never boring with her -- it's interesting." ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. . She called this the most important lesson to be learned from the tragedy of Nanking. It's a disease. She also focused on human rights. 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. Christopher R . She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. He explained that the gunpowder she had was unsafe to use indoors. 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.". Register for a user account. "She was in on more than one occasion," said Reed's manager, Pat Kalcic, a tall outdoorsman. The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didnt emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. We've seen staged suicides and we've seen homicides. He stopped and honked but there was no response. . She was 36. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. The book, "Thread of the Silkworm," was published in 1995. She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. 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 . Iris Chang interview, Barbara Simpson show, KSFO radio, San Francisco, California 1998 November 8. It's a date he won't forget. Andrew Nickolds obituary. It has a terrible reverberating effect. Reader's Digest devoted a cover story to her. Throughout her life, Chang was instrumental in capturing Asian-American history. What happened to Iris Chang's son? She finally agreed that she would talk to me. Her mother hoped Iris would take on a lighter topic for her next book, especially with a baby in the house. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". She promised to buy less volatile powder. 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. General 1994-2003. . At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. The lack of sleep can exacerbate the illness and vice versa. Opting for a master's degree, she was accepted by the Graduate Writing Seminar at Johns Hopkins University and moved to Baltimore in 1990. "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. Tech Greater Vancouver Metropolitan. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Iris had been haunted since childhood by the graphic stories she was told about Nanking. She just knows how to do things," he said, tenderly smoothing out a page. "The Man Who Ended History", a story in The Paper Managerie by Ken Liu about uncovering the history of Unit 731, is dedicated to the memory of Chang. "It's amazing when you watch Iris do research," Brett said. She described finding threatening notes on her car. "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. In the backseat, a teddy bear was tucked into the car seat of her 2-year-old son, Christopher. Investigators concluded that Chang had shot herself through the mouth with a revolver. I was not alone in eating Iris dust, Kamen noted ruefully in an essay she wrote for Salon shortly after Changs death. Iris Shun-Ru Chang born March 28, 1968 Princeton, New Jersey died by suicide on a road south of San Francisco, near Los Gatos, November 9, 2004 father Shau-Jin Chang, a physics professor at the University of Illinois mother Ying-Ying Chang, a microbiology professor at the University of Illinois brother Michael Chang But Douglas finally told Kamen that Christopher had been born with the help of a surrogate mother. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." At the end of the three days, I was making silly little jokes and she was laughing. . While en route to Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where she planned to gain access to a "time capsule" of audio recordings from servicemen, she suffered an extreme bout of depression that left her unable to leave her hotel room in Louisville. Dean Baker, a 33-year veteran, took over the investigation. "Civilization is tissue thin," Iris wrote. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. ", While writing the book, Iris found it "almost impossible to separate myself from the tragedy," she said. Copy photo of Iris Chang with her husband Brett Douglas and their son at his birthday party. But even before the publication of "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History," Chang had established herself as an invaluable source of information about Asia, human rights, and Asian American history. When you do not, you live not just by the day but by the minute. 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. It was just after nine on a November morning in 2004 and he had spotted a female driver who was either asleep or in trouble. By Douglas on 09-05-09 Sample The Rape of Nanking; By: Iris Chang . (Another of Changs unfinished projects was a book on defeating the biological clock.) 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. HANDOUT PHOTO/VERIFY RIGHTS AND USEAGE, memorial20_099_el.jpg It didn't take him long to propose, but their 1989 engagement stretched out while Brett finished grad school in Urbana. "There are a fair number of people who don't take kindly to what she wrote in 'The Rape of Nanking,' " Brett said, "so she's always been very, very private about our family life. By now, Brett had taken a job with a Santa Barbara engineering firm. The debate it provoked -- between those Japanese who deny the atrocities and the Chinese who seek an official apology and reparations -- continues. It is far better that you remember me as I was -- in my heyday as a best-selling author -- than the wild-eyed wreck who returned from Louisville . "Depression is a silent epidemic among Asian Americans because we tend not to seek help soon enough," Hong said. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". Editor's note: An earlier version of this article had the incorrect location for Ying-Ying Chang's book signing. Their mothers helped to plan the wedding. Chang, 36 . Her international best-seller, The Rape of Nanking, examined the slaughter, rape and torture of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers during World War II. And then there's the issue of the model minority. "It's going to be very emotional to talk about Iris in Cupertino," said Chang. During her research, Kamen uncovered secrets that the seemingly always-in-control Chang kept close until near the very end. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. 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. ". Kamen coined the phrase to Iris Chang it years before her friends death. ", 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. "It is a scary, dangerous and terrifyingly confusing time. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. of a professor of physics (father) and a microbiologist (mother); graduated in journalist from University of Illinois, 1989; attended Johns Hopkins University; m. But some scholars felt that she was a little too involved with her subject matter. And maybe more than the first two books I wrote combined, too.. But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. 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. She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. I thought it would break the spell, break the hold of these emotions. Her parents saw her off that morning. Now, the family rushed to learn everything they could about her illness. "She was like a battalion commander," Meldahl said. "She ventured into a minefield of unexploded ordnance.". The group meets to address important issues concerning the Chinese-American community, as well as issues affecting U.S.-China relations on 5/5/03 in New York. 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. 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. She bought Derek Humphrys book on suicide, Final Exit, and sent boxes of her papers to three different archivesat the University of California at Santa Barbara, Stanford, and the U. of I.leaving Kamen a mountain of carefully organized materials to go through. "We sat down and started talking, and we had a lot to say. Next to it, now, is a copy of Iris' obituary. Chang said she did some research on the psychiatric drugs and the antidepressants Iris took in the months between a temporary nervous breakdown and her suicide. After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. . Title Type Publication date Author(s) Description; Document:The Mysterious Deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Iris Chang: article: 1 August 2011: Iris Chang's coffin was carried to a waiting hearse to be brought to the grave site at Gate of Heaven Cemetery in Los Altos. She asked me if I was religious -- I said I wasn't, not at all. Iris arrived at the gunsmith's at about 2 p.m., carrying a Reed's Sport Shop Bag. "There is no way that a family member could sort out all the details, let alone their own feelings, because they're connected to the person," Dr. "Over a year and a half, she visited 65 cities," Brett said. 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. A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." It was very painful for me to think about, even then. Sunday morning, they drove to Santa Cruz for lunch on the pier, then went to her favorite spa, Chaminade -- a 300-acre mission-style resort, surrounded by redwoods and eucalyptus, in the Santa Cruz Mountains. It was the first history of Japan's brutal 1937 occupation of China's capital city and documented the weekslong rampage. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. I didn't know if I'd hear from her again." Her head rested against the window. Married 41 years, the Changs are a handsome, gracious couple. 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.". After the interview, they kept up an active correspondence. She came alive before crowds -- she loved to share, and she was interested in other people's lives. On August 31, 2002, Christopher Douglas, their son, was born. Rabiner sensed the book would be important and signed Iris to write it. "He got the job, we went," Mrs. Chang explained. "Iris was a phenomenon," said one of her former teachers at Johns Hopkins, Ann Finkbeiner. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND Iris ate quickly, asked for green tea to go and charged $15.11 to her credit card. Now, it becomes our treasure. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. Iris Chang's coffen was carried to a waiting hearst and a short drive to the burial site at the cemetary. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. he cried. 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. "She didn't like the idea that she was taking medicine," her father said. Turning right, she pulled into the strip mall across the street from the school. Chang wrote three books documenting the experiences of Chinese and Chinese Americans in history. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? In the fall of 1990, Iris took Finkbeiner's "Science Stories" course. News of her suicide brought forth a chorus of disbelief. Chang also experienced several miscarriages all said to influence the onset of bipolar disorder. Chang's son, Christopher (born with the help of a surrogate mother), has been diagnosed as autistic specifically Asperger's disorder, a mild form. "She talked almost obsessively. Kamen loved Chang, but she was determined not to "write a Hallmark card," either. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. 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. He left China in 1935 to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She wanted to be independent, to think for herself. When you do not, you live not just by the day -- but by the minute. "We set out a very big lunch -- meat trays and sandwiches and desserts," she said. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. She was 26. This was not her first visit. 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. Is the Stanley Quencher tumbler worth its TikTok hype? [5] She then embarked on her career as an author and lectured and wrote magazine articles. Box. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. He framed it and hung it on a wall in his home. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. 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. January 19, 2023 . She attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and graduated in 1985. "She couldn't eat or drink. Both parts merge in "The Woman Who Could Not Forget," a memoir by . She wrote her 100-page book proposal in a couple of weeks.". He immediately called the police. It had been one week since their daughter's death. Tsien left for the People's Republic of China in September 1955. -- Did her single-minded determination, her habit of working beyond exhaustion, contribute to her death? At 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, a county water district employee drove past the Oldsmobile. Every suicide is the tragic terminus of a tangle of roads, a route unique as a thumbprint. But today Christopher is healthy. I told her, 'Take a break.' She did, and, starting in November 2003, would make four trips to meet with Bataan vets -- in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. It had been the largest U.S. Army surrender in history. "The stress of writing this book and living with this horror on a daily basis caused my weight to plummet," she said. This is a carousel. ", Brett voiced a similar conclusion. Some became overwrought with emotion during the interviews and broke down into tears. 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. Homicide detectives would eventually determine that Iris had loaded all six chambers of the gun, placed the barrel between her lips, and fired. Iris pushed herself "to be the best possible mother and the best possible writer," Brett said. She was committed to her cause, and she radiated life. The parents of Iris Chang sit close together, their faces drawn. "Most lived in dark, squalid apartments cluttered with the debris of poverty and heavy with mildew and humidity," she wrote. This kind of "black powder" is unstable and unsafe indoors, so he insisted she first take the can outside. One of Iris' best friends, Barbara Masin, came up from Santa Barbara for a long weekend visit. Among other things, the compulsively well-organized Chang began losing credit cards every couple of weeks, according to Douglas, and in her last year she became paranoid about everything from viruses attacking her computer to attempts by the government to recruit her, a la The Manchurian Candidate. He showed her how to load the gun and tried to give her basic safety and handling instructions. Each time, Iris swept into town and conducted four or five intensive interviews in as many days. We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. She would talk about her achievements openly, and people saw her as putting them down or bragging, when it was really that she believed there was enough success to go around., A Canadian documentary about Chang is in the works and two statues honoring her have been erected since her deathone at Stanford, the other at a memorial to the Nanking massacre in whats now called Nanjing, where another woman from Illinois is honored. Both were born in mainland China. In one often-mentioned incident (as reported by The Times of London): she confronted the Japanese Ambassador to the United States on television, demanded an apology and expressed her dissatisfaction with his mere acknowledgement "that really unfortunate things happened, acts of violence were committed by members of the Japanese military". 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