But the gun jammed. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. On the day of Iris Chang's death, word spread quickly over news wires and the Internet. Lived In Union MO, Alabaster AL, Jacksonville FL, Lake Villa IL. They advance new concepts in imaging, proteomics, drug discovery, and catalysis by drawing from core disciplines of inorganic, organic, and biological chemistry. This bustling city of 6 million glimmers. I thought it would break the spell, break the hold of these emotions. South Bay Rep.'s Expenditures Stir Prez Bid Buzz: Report, Convicted Serial Killer Pleads Guilty In 1973 Stanford Cold Case, Peninsula Youth Theatre's 'The Snow Queen' 2023: Mountain View, Pianist Alessandro Deljavan - Steinway Society Bay Area Concert 2023: San Jose, Symphony San Jose 'Tchaikovsky Flute' With Soloist Denis Bouriakov 2023: SJ, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's 'In Every Generation' 2023: Mountain View. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. There is always free will. ", 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. 66 years old (May 27, 1956) "She appeared to have done research." These were considered her finest traits. "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. Brett said, "It was, I think, 21 cities in 28 days. Tell us what happened. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. Please reload the page and try again. We've seen a lot of suicides. But Douglas finally told Kamen that Christopher had been born with the help of a surrogate mother. They brought her home, and at first Iris responded well to rest and treatment. He had only recently retired from the family farm in central Illinois that had been in the family for five generations. "He immediately agreed to read my manuscript and write the introduction when I asked him.". She got very, very wound up in things," Finkbeiner said. Slowing down, he repeated, "It's interesting. 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. She was 36. ", Then she wrote a suicide note -- addressed to her parents, Brett and her brother -- followed by a lengthy revision. Christopher Douglas's age is 53. View this record View. I promise not to hurt myself. Her last Bataan trip was scheduled for July 2004. It had been one week since their daughter's death. Box. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. "She's very strong- willed," her mother said. "You didn't always feel she was talking to you --, it was as if she had to talk. "Iris was much in demand and gave many talks," Brett recalled, adding with a laugh, "she was schmoozing the whole time." She came alive before crowds -- she loved to share, and she was interested in other people's lives. "She contacted people who'd been lost for years, dug up records that nobody ever knew existed. And maybe more than the first two books I wrote combined, too.. At the end of the three days, I was making silly little jokes and she was laughing. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) Iris Chang lived in San Jose . At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. He went to her desk in her upstairs office and found a note next to the computer. Long after college, Changs drive, intelligence, and tireless research continued to put her ahead of her peers. Se cas con Bretton Lee Douglas, con quien tuvo a su hijo Christopher, y vivi en San Jos (California), donde sufri una profunda depresin que le llev al suicidio. "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mood disorder that affects one in every 70 people. Her maternal grandparents had escaped just weeks before the Japanese arrived. Just do it!" After Iris Chang's Oldsmobile was found off Highway 17 on Tuesday morning, Nov. 9, the California Highway Patrol was called to the scene. "It's going to be very emotional to talk about Iris in Cupertino," said Chang. "We weren't really prepared for the success of the book," Brett said. Christopher Douglas was born on 26 August 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. "We bought this house when we knew he was on the way. Iris was first and foremost an advocate. Finally, the group stood to sing a halting but heartfelt rendition of "Amazing Grace.". As a duo played traditional Chinese music, a group of nearly 100 gathered at the Millbrae headquarters of the Chinese-language daily the World Journal. "When I was obsessed about Iris, my husband and my son suggested taking me to see a therapist, but I said no," said Chang. Similar situation to my own Mom was a self hating, mentally ill Asian woman married to a gangly white nerd. Mom was a self hating, mentally ill Asian woman married to a gangly white nerd. 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). One of Iris' best friends, Barbara Masin, came up from Santa Barbara for a long weekend visit. 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. "There were up and down periods," he said. [14], R.F. He was a happy baby, with his mother's jet-black hair. "When we first got married, we said we were going to start trying to have a child after four years," Brett said. Christopher Douglas-Wood. 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 said, grinning. . Beautiful as always, she was dressed in an indigo blue suit, identical in color and hue to the dress in the photograph. "But I woke up at 2 a.m. and she was pacing the hallway," Brett said. 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. On Saturday night they went to dinner at Fresh Choice and out to the movies. Rabiner sensed the book would be important and signed Iris to write it. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. On top of that, she wasn't sleeping. Christopher J. Chang (Chemistry), Ral Coronado (Ethnic Studies), Ken Light (Journalism), and Debarati Sanyal . Kuang's debut novel, The Poppy War, is dedicated to Iris Chang. 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. They lived on a leafy country road named Einstein Drive. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" I didn't know if I'd hear from her again." December 8-9, 2007, The Weekend Australian. "A lot of people -- depending on how disturbed they are -- feel that people are plotting against them." Chang has written for numerous publications, such as the New York Times, Newsweek and the Los Angeles Times, and has been featured by countless radio, television and print media, including Nightline, the Jim Lehrer News Hour, Charlie Rose, Good Morning America, C-Span's Booknotes, and the front cover of Reader's Digest. Here are some photos of Iris's son Christopher enjoying his spring break in Florida +10 3434 4 comments Share I was there for three days and we talked. Thinking the driver must be asleep, he got out of his car and banged on the hood. That's why she was such a powerful role model for so many Chinese Americans. "She also liked to beat the system. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Once the Allies won the war, the story was forgotten. Later she married Bretton Lee Douglas. Whoops! Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana . "Iris was a very strong person, even when she was depressed," said Brett. After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, she pursued a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." 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"I urged her to talk with someone -- either Brett, or me, or someone. . "We spoke for two hours, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.," Rabiner said. After seeing the Nanking pictures, Iris wrote: "I was suddenly in a panic that this reversion in human social evolution would be reduced to a footnote of history unless someone forced the world to remember it. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. Iris would be working solo. "When anybody questioned the validity of what she wrote, she would respond with overwhelming evidence to back it up. asked Iris, knowing Martel had been saved from near starvation by the brushy mustache he wore. She added one more reason when talking to Patchto help those who lost loved ones like herself heal. 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. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. It read: "I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. "Most authors are worn out after five or six cities." She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. Iris Chang found the inspiration for her new book in 1994 when she came face-to-face with poster-size photographs of Nanking war crimes at a conference in Cupertino. 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. Her mother said, "She was always publishing something. "Iris was very sensitive. At the time, she was several months into research for her fourth book, about the Bataan Death March. After working briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press . 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. This is a carousel. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. Chang said she's very grateful to her husband for being extremely supportive in her writing process. I told her, 'Take a break.' In the end, the war she could not win raged internally. 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. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. It became a surprise best-seller. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. She attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and graduated in 1985. Douglas iris had many uses in Native American cultures. She was 36. 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. With the insight perhaps only a mother could have, she began to wonder if her son Christopher, then 2, was showing signs of autism. ", His voice slipped to a whisper. Iris Chang, author of The Rape of Nanking, ended her life with a pistol on November 9, 2004. 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. Iris pushed herself "to be the best possible mother and the best possible writer," Brett said. "Over a year and a half, she visited 65 cities," Brett said. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. including Chang's husband Brett Douglas and the couple's 2-year-old son, Christopher. "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. 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? Now author of the deceased writer's biography, The Woman Who Could Not Forget, Chang is scheduled to have a book signing at from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday. When, at 36, Chang shot herself in 2004 on an empty stretch. 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. Dean Baker, a 33-year veteran, took over the investigation. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". They met again at Taiwan University -- and yet again when each won a science scholarship to Harvard in 1962. Chang, the author of the international best seller "The Rape of Nanking," the compelling history of "the Chinese holocaust" the 1937 brutal torture and murder of upward of 35 million Chinese citizens at the hands of the Japanese, was instantly labeled a human rights pioneer. ", During two years of research, Iris made significant historical discoveries. Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. We'll be sending you The Daily Reader starting soon. As a teacher's assistant, she taught a class in creative writing. Iris insisted she had already passed. ", "Iris truly had no fear. Chasing the shadows. 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 . "Yes!" Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. ", Rabiner believes that neither the subject matter of her work nor the intensity of her work habits precipitated Iris' manic-depressive symptoms. It's a shame these atrocities had to be happened in the hands of Japanese. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. Smith said the colonel spent only a short time with her. "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. ", Rabiner became worried, too. "She would just say, matter-of-factly, 'Japan is lying and here's why.' "For three days they gave her medication, the first time in her life." She wrote: "After reading several file cabinets' worth of documents on Japanese war crimes as well as accounts of ancient atrocities from the pantheon of world history, I would have to conclude that Japan's behavior during World War II was less a product of dangerous people than of a dangerous government, in a vulnerable culture, in dangerous times, able to sell dangerous rationalizations to those whose human instincts told them otherwise.". She wanted to be independent, to think for herself. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. 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 . 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. March 28, 1968. She had been sad for several months, but she didn't seem in an acute phase. When I read The Rape of Nanking, I was struck by the parallels in the lives of these two women, Minnie and Iris, Kamen writes. She was very depressed." She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. "I knew writing would be more helpful to me than medicine.". Our kitchen remodeling San Jose team is ready to help right now! I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. She was too strong-willed not to.". She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. They had spent one hour together. 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. This is for the biographers., Suicide, Kamen observes, is in a lot of ways the ultimate act of control. In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. Net Worth. Nitin Gadkari 15844 bday balloons. Like others, Kamen had wondered if postpartum depression might have played a role in her mental decline. So, in return for performing a short, Chaplinesque shuffle, he would be rewarded with a handful of scallions. Iris was "shocked and depressed" to see their living conditions in Nanking. "It's been too short.". Iris Chang lived and worked in California. Iris sent the Martels photographs from her trip, cards for Chinese New Year and updates on her Bataan project. The Chang laboratory studies the chemistry of biology and energy. That night, she had dinner with her husband of 13 years, Brett Douglas. ", Baker explained his conclusion: "There's no evidence that any kind of conspiracy caused her death. "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. In 1937, Vautrin was a missionary and teacher at the Nanking Women's College when its campus became part of the Safety Zone. Paula Kamen digs deep into the ambitious life and tragic death of her most successful friend. Although Tsien was one of the founders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and for many years helped the military of the United States debrief scientists from Nazi Germany, he was suddenly accused of being a spy and a member of the Communist Party USA, and was placed under house arrest from 1950 to 1955. "Sometimes, people can be both mentally ill and highly disciplined, highly structured, highly productive members of society, whether you're talking about science or business or the arts. Homicide detectives would eventually determine that Iris had loaded all six chambers of the gun, placed the barrel between her lips, and fired. Iris discovered this group of Chinese American activists after she and Brett moved to Northern California when he got a job with Cisco Systems. "Talking to her, you felt like she was one of the family." Register for a user account. "For anybody who experiences mental illness for the first time, it's very hard to accept that it is your biology that is making it happen. Filmography. It's a disease. He established an International Safety Zone in Nanking before the Japanese soldiers arrived from Shanghai. Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! And often, he added, "people think they've wronged everybody and can't possibly do anything to make up for what they think they've done wrong. That is, successful and invulnerable. The water district employee called his supervisor, who called 911. " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. They married in 1964, and each earned a doctorate from Harvard in 1967. "We set out a very big lunch -- meat trays and sandwiches and desserts," she said. And Iris would buy lunch and dinner for everybody, and they all thought it was great. The manager knew her as a customer and an author -- Iris and Brett ate there often. 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 . "So they tried to make it harder and harder." The Rape of Nanking remained on the New York Times Bestseller list for 10 weeks. Looking back, Chang said she thinks Iris was just a workaholic who needed a break, and should have slept and eaten more, instead of taking psychiatric drugs. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. "Iris is sensitive, but she got charged up," he recalled. In the backseat, a teddy bear was tucked into the car seat of her 2-year-old son, Christopher. Director. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. And she believed her research produced irrevocable proof of Japanese atrocities. "The boys came together to say, 'Crisis! She would have a team of three vets and their children and their wives. But just before Iris left for Kentucky -- the last week of July 2004 -- a family emergency forced the teacher to cancel. 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. She called this the most important lesson to be learned from the tragedy 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. On Nov. 9, 2004, historian Iris Chang was found dead on a rural California road just south of Los Gatos. 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. 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? "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. ", On her trip to China, she met with survivors from Nanking. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. He was misled by Iris. A red tricycle and a jogging stroller flanked the front door. 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. [19], When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. Box. 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. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. 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. When her body was discovered, Iris Chang had been dead for two hours. He stopped and honked but there was no response. "Statement of Iris Chang" stated: I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. It had been the largest U.S. Army surrender in history. During her research, Kamen uncovered secrets that the seemingly always-in-control Chang kept close until near the very end. Theirs was not just a story of war, but of boys becoming men, she said in a transcription of one of her many taped interviews. Along with fear for her safety, Iris' illness generated feelings of self- blame. "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. ", Brett voiced a similar conclusion. 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. It's what drove the actress to campaign for the title role in a new documentary drama about Chinese American author Iris Chang's life and 2004 suicide on a lonely rural road near San Francisco Bay. Months earlier, Iris had seized on a letter in her "book ideas" file about a Midwestern pocket of Bataan survivors, all members of two tank battalions. There was an error and we couldn't process your subscription. Isles Of Scilly, TR21. Her mother hoped Iris would take on a lighter topic for her next book, especially with a baby in the house. "He made breakfast for me," she said. Both parts merge in "The Woman Who Could Not Forget," a memoir by . "There's a book I must do," she said. Iris Shun-Ru Chang 19683282004119 I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. ", When Zia and Iris met for the first time, they planned a quick lunch. 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. That essay, How Iris Chang Became a Verb, serves as a graceful and insightful eulogy for the best-selling author, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on a lonely stretch of road outside San Jose, California, in November 2004. much beloved author of the books: "The Chinese in America" and "The Rape of Nanking" In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. For Asian Americans to write nonfiction about Asia or Asian America was relatively new. Tsien was a top physicist at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was deported during the Red scare of the 1950s. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. ", Between August and November, Iris saw two different therapists before finding one who seemed a good fit. With few rations, little ammunition and no reinforcements, 70,000 American and Filipino troops held off the Japanese for months. And that really took its toll on her, too.". 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