"I spent several hours with each one, getting the details of their experiences on videotape. A reassuring presence, he stood at the kitchen counter, fixing a sandwich for lunch. " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. Soon they were both teaching and conducting research at the University of Illinois. Iris Chang was an American journalist, human rights activist, and author. Their second child, Michael, was born in 1970. The news hit Nanjing fast and hard. Iris Chang, you had done a lot to fully expose the Nanjing Massacre happened 70 years ago. We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. Christopher Douglas (III) Actor IMDbPro Starmeter See rank Christopher Douglas is known for The Onedin Line (1971), Early Travellers in North America (1992) and Crown Court (1972). "They had a big fight," he said. I told her, 'Take a break.' She passed the football field and the blocky, concrete auditorium of James Lick High School. As that November afternoon darkened into evening, the Changs sat at their Danish-modern dining room table and told stories about Iris, speaking sometimes in past tense and sometimes in present tense. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle, iris chang at Bataan tank in wisconsin courtesy of the bataan commenorative research project, Iris Chang at 7 years old courtesy the chang family, iris changs senior picture from university high She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. But friends say Iris began to voice concerns for her safety. The sound of children singing wafted in from the swimming pool nearby. Tsien was a top physicist at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was deported during the Red scare of the 1950s. She had been sad for several months, but she didn't seem in an acute phase. "When somebody like Iris makes up their mind that they're going to commit suicide, they're going to do it. Christopher Douglas-Wood. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." ER 2002-08 . Editor's note: An earlier version of this article had the incorrect location for Ying-Ying Chang's book signing. They just kept saying, 'We'll print another 10,000, we'll print another 10,000.' "We went to see 'Ray,' " Brett said. (The family would not name specific drugs.). The views expressed here are the author's own. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) 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. "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. Chang dilahirkan di Princeton, New Jersey dan dibesarkan di Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. "It is because of these types of wording and the vagueness of such expressions that Chinese people, I think, are infuriated," was her reaction. Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. Still, the depression failed to lift. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. After the ambassador spoke of events in Nanking, Iris turned to the moderator and said: "I didn't hear an apology. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle. I will stop by to visit my parents then go for a long walk. "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. 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. At the time of her death, Chang was researching a fourth book about the Bataan Death March and was promoting The Chinese in America. Nov. 11, 2004 12 AM PT. There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. "Every time we set a rule, she always tried to find some way to get around it. "They drop so fast," the letter had read. Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. 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.. ", Christopher was born Aug. 31 that year. Select the best result to find their address, phone number, relatives, and public records. By the time that was done, it was already eight years. 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. Instead it offers the same meticulous attention to detail and thorough immersion in primary sources that distinguishes Changs exhaustively researched books, Thread of the Silkworm (1995), about an accused Chinese spy; The Rape of Nanking, published in 1997 to mark the massacres 60th anniversary; and the 2003 narrative history The Chinese in America. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. Schell reviewed her book favorably in the New York Times. There, Iris had lengthy conversations with then-President Bill Clinton and gave him a signed copy of "The Rape of Nanking.". Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The water district employee called his supervisor, who called 911. During her research, Kamen uncovered secrets that the seemingly always-in-control Chang kept close until near the very end. "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. A red tricycle and a jogging stroller flanked the front door. It documents atrocities committed against Chinese by forces of the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War, and includes interviews with victims. It's a disease. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. 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. "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History" was published by Viking in 2003. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. I will follow the doctor's orders for medications. . But for us to be able to write nonfiction, the stories of our lives -- on a lot of levels, it was revolutionary. 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. A poster-size photograph of Iris, lit by candlelight, stood vigil on the lawn of Spangler Mortuary in Los Altos in the early evening of Nov. 18. Her head rested against the window. Each time, Iris swept into town and conducted four or five intensive interviews in as many days. There's almost zero chance that the kid isn't autistic. Ran on: 11-20-2004 "We weren't really prepared for the success of the book," Brett said. By now, Brett was living in Santa Barbara, working toward a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of California. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. . Thu 11/8, 7:30 PM, Women & Children First, 5233 N. Clark, 773-769-9299. ", Brett voiced a similar conclusion. And she was determined not to be hospitalized again. Filmography. It had been the largest U.S. Army surrender in history. When you do not, you live not just by the day -- but by the minute. It was hard for her not to react every single time. 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. Includes Address (11) Phone (8) Email (3) See Results. Iris' reluctance to take medication may indicate the difficulty she had accepting her illness as an illness. I knew immediately I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.". A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. Such harsh logic, symptomatic of the disease, rendered her unable to extend her own magnificent compassion to herself. Chang had used her diary as a source, and Vautrins story figures prominently in her book. I believe that Iris was very strong-willed and whatever she wanted to do, she would do. She harbored hundreds of Chinese women and children there during the occupation. Some 8,000 died on the notorious "death march." She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. Iris Chang wrote those lines in 1978, when she was 10, and 19 years before her harrowing book, The Rape of Nanking, brought her worldwide acclaim. The revolver lay on her left leg. I am doing this because I am too weak to withstand the years of pain and agony ahead.". 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. As a guest speaker at colleges she often cited Changs career as an example of how to think big; she encouraged students to just decide what you want and go get itto the point of being naive. But while Chang was undeniably brilliant and hardworking, her undisguised ambition turned off as many people as it charmed. The gunsmith told police he had spotted a can of gunpowder in the bag. "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. 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. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. ", "Chinese Americans grew up hearing about this forgotten holocaust," said Zia, whose grandmother was killed in Nanking. The official cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot. ". Register for a user account. Iris would be working solo. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana . Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking. ", At the same time, torrents of hate mail came in, Brett said. "For three days they gave her medication, the first time in her life." Another person Chang said she should thank most is Richard Rhodes, who wrote the book's introduction. "Iris used to say she never understood why people would commit suicide, so she was definitely not a suicidal type," said Chang. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. I was there for three days and we talked. She wrote three books, which made her visible as a public figure. Iris sent the Martels photographs from her trip, cards for Chinese New Year and updates on her Bataan project. Reporter Richard Rongstad eulogized her as "Iris Chang lit a flame and passed it to others and we should not allow that flame to be extinguished.". Bay Area Rainfall Topped Out At 50 Inches; Big Sur At 85 Inches, $613M Silicon Valley Blank Check Firm Faces Liquidation: Report, South Bay Teacher Arrested On Suspicion Of Sexually Assaulting Minor. In the fall of 1990, Iris took Finkbeiner's "Science Stories" course. "But as I was leaving, she got apathetic again. The Police Department drafted a missing person's report. ", Later, Iris challenged the Japanese ambassador to a debate on the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. ", Martel was slightly hard of hearing, but his memory was crisp. Chang will continue her book-signing tour after Saturday's event in Cupertino. But the gun jammed. They made an appointment. But some scholars felt that she was a little too involved with her subject matter. CHANG2-C-29APR03-DD-HO.jpg The next morning, Friday, Nov. 19, dawned cold, clear and sunny. She asked me if I was religious -- I said I wasn't, not at all. She passed the iron gates of Calvary Catholic Cemetery, where marble statues of winged angels, their heads bowed in prayer, mark the graves of early settlers. She called this the most important lesson to be learned from the tragedy of Nanking. He had only recently retired from the family farm in central Illinois that had been in the family for five generations. It is where she was roused from a dreamless sleep just before midnight by Iris' husband, Brett Douglas, and a police officer, who had come to tell her that her daughter her beautiful little. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. "She got used to the fact that there is a Web site called 'Iris Chang and Her Lies.' "She would go into a town -- and with Tony Meldahl's help, it was even better. 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 spent her childhood in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. By Dennis McLellan. The event was organized by Global Alliance and the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" She easily passed the 20 exams necessary to qualify, only to be told that she must take five more. I got off the phone confused and concerned, but I was too unsophisticated about psychological problems to realize that she was saying goodbye to me. The Monache tribe and Southern California Yokut tribes made flour from iris seeds. "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. "I knew writing would be more helpful to me than medicine.". Success as an author made Iris Chang a public figure. She wrote her 100-page book proposal in a couple of weeks.". 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. "First they gave her an antipsychotic, to stabilize her," her mother said. Investigators concluded that Chang had shot herself through the mouth with a revolver. They had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of his mother's death in 2004. The daughter of Ying-Ying () and Dr. Shau-Jin () Chang, she was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Though troubling to realize, those things that protect us most -- faith, family, health, financial stability -- are often powerless against mental illness. AKA Iris Shun-Ru Chang. She feared these vaccinations may have caused him to become autistic. Questions hung in the air: -- How could someone with such success, surrounded by loving family and friends, take her own life? The pool, a turquoise rectangle surrounded by pines, sat at the center of the village-like complex. 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. 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. They lived on a leafy country road. Iris was first and foremost an advocate. 66 years old (May 27, 1956) 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. Photos for a profile of Iris chang, a prominenet author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. In a funny kind of way, she was resolute, she was calm. "And she brought an incredible reserve of emotion to it. It had been one week since their daughter's death. 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. ", Most of the attacks came from Japanese ultranationalists. "This was lying in our basement. Iris Chang died on November 9, 2004. 36 year-old iris chang, the prominent chinese american "But I woke up at 2 a.m. and she was pacing the hallway," Brett said. She was also promoting The Chinese in America. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. But today Christopher is healthy. She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. "Iris wanted to talk, and I said, 'You should go to bed, it's 2 in the morning.' 2002) University: BS Journalism, University of . That is, successful and invulnerable. ", Her father patted the tabletop. One by one, each dropped a single purple iris or one red rose into the grave, saying, "Goodbye, Iris.". She parked in front of Reed's Sport Shop, a redwood-shingled emporium that sells fishing, cycling and hunting gear. "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. Ironically, the very condition that put her career on a slower track has also helped her avoid the emotional and physical burnout that the ambitious Chang experienced during her last year. Facts. "Every single survivor I met was desperately anxious to tell his or her story," she later said. 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. -- Did her single-minded determination, her habit of working beyond exhaustion, contribute to her death? Her maternal grandparents had escaped just weeks before the Japanese arrived. Box. She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. THEY ARE AT THE CHINESE AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER / CULTURE TO CULTURE FOUNDATION. Related To Courtney Douglas, Brenda Douglas, Sherry Douglas, Lynd Douglas, Maki Douglas. Born: 28-Mar-1968 Birthplace: Princeton, NJ . The lead balls must be individually prepared, packed with gunpowder and topped with a percussive cap. They made an appointment to meet Wednesday at the firing range. ", Iris called Rabiner. Her mother hoped Iris would take on a lighter topic for her next book, especially with a baby in the house. ", Then she wrote a suicide note -- addressed to her parents, Brett and her brother -- followed by a lengthy revision. It didn't take him long to propose, but their 1989 engagement stretched out while Brett finished grad school in Urbana. 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. I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. 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." Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! He was a happy baby, with his mother's jet-black hair. She offered to pay Basic Books to publish it. She's very much a perfectionist. "She's very strong- willed," her mother said. She paid the gunsmith $10. 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. The book signing will be held at Cupertino Community Hall on Saturday, Aug. 27 from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. Well known since its 1997 publication is the global best seller,The Rape of Nanking. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. She was initially a computer science major, but switched to journalism, earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989. Copyright 2011 irischang.net All Rights Reserved. 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. Driving west toward Santa Cruz on Highway 17, she took a turnoff 25 miles from her home and parked on a steep gravel utility road within sight of the highway. He is an actor, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Playing Mona Lisa (2000) and Cyber Bandits (1995). ', "Much of the conversation was upbeat. 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. Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. Tall and slender, with glossy black hair falling well past her shoulders, Iris emerged from her car wearing blue jeans and sneakers. The debate it provoked -- between those Japanese who deny the atrocities and the Chinese who seek an official apology and reparations -- continues. Consistent with the style of her earlier works, the book relies heavily on personal accounts, drawing its strong emotional content from their stories. Paula Kamen digs deep into the ambitious life and tragic death of her most successful friend. ", Between August and November, Iris saw two different therapists before finding one who seemed a good fit. 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. But Kalcic and his employees did not know how unusual Iris Chang was: a world- renowned author whose work had stirred international controversy. ", Between trips to the Midwest, Iris conducted yet another book tour. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. View Christopher Douglas results in Ohio (OH) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. Isles Of Scilly, TR21. For her, it was a relief," said Masin. 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. But when Brett and Iris were invited back the next year, the young couple took a different tack. "I believe Iris in heaven would want me to do this, to channel my sadness into something positive.". He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. If she had a brain tumor, people would better understand.". The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didn't emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. "It was family lore. After two years at Princeton, the family moved to a Midwestern college town, Champaign-Urbana, in Illinois. He recalled telling Iris about the worst of his Bataan experiences. ". 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. "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. An excerpt from an interview with author Iris Chang held during her appearance at the New York State Writers Institute on April 14, 2004. 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]. "Poetry by Iris Chang" was written in neat cursive on the title page. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang Th. 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. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. Most of the calls were from women, said Betty Hong, executive director of the Oakland clinic. She touched her fingertips to her forehead, then waved her hand to the heavens: "It's because Iris is a dreamer." She was 36. She found the diaries of a pair of Westerners who were among the heroes of Nanking. "No, no! Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. PLEASE VERIFY RIGHTS. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. It was very painful for me to think about, even then. "Iris was impatient. 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. ", 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. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born August 26, 1969 Add to list Known for The Young and the Restless 5.2 TV Series Sean Bridges 2001 5 eps In three days, her parents came to take her home. You could see it in the steadiness of her voice and in her persistence," Zia recalled. Hoping to practice shooting, she asked the gunsmith to go with her to a nearby indoor firing range. Meanwhile, Iris was one of a dozen journalism undergraduates chosen for an accelerated Associated Press training program. With the insight perhaps only a mother could have, she began to wonder if her son Christopher, then 2, was showing signs of autism. He went to her desk in her upstairs office and found a note next to the computer. As long as I am alive, these forces will never stop hounding me. Messages of . Chang, 36 . You're not on a moving train. The Nanking book had "made Iris sad. She confirmed the danger of psychiatric drugs and antidepressants after reading publications by psychiatrist Peter Breggin, as well as bio-psychiatry researcher and psychiatrist, Martin Teicher. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. Copy photo of Iris Chang with her husband Brett Douglas and their son at his birthday party. 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. he said, grinning. At the same time, her foes said her suicide proved that "Rape of Nanking" was nothing but lies. Iris was "shocked and depressed" to see their living conditions in Nanking. [19], When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When Martel read in a newspaper about her death, he asked his daughter, "Is that our Iris? 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