"Why did he have to toy with me like that?" At 10, she entered a young- author competition and won first place. Chasing the shadows. 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. "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. View Christopher Douglas results in Ohio (OH) including current phone number, address, relatives, background check report, and property record with Whitepages. The daughter of Ying-Ying () and Dr. Shau-Jin () Chang, she was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Iris dubbed him the "Oskar Schindler of Nanking.". " Iris was sometimes teased for her earnestness. It's a disease. Soon she managed to call her mother. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". She got from the airport to the hotel, but that was all she could do. When she tried finding books about the subject in Champaign Public Library, she found there were none.[3]. When, at 36, Chang shot herself in 2004 on an empty stretch. The views expressed here are the author's own. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. "The Chinese in America: A Narrative History" was published by Viking in 2003. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. Share this on . "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. Box. She planned to visit Harrodsburg, Ky., where several survivors lived and where an old Bataan-era tank stood sentry in the town square. Chang, 36 . ", Later, Iris challenged the Japanese ambassador to a debate on the "MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour" on PBS. In three days, her parents came to take her home. theguardian.com. Best of Chicago 2021About the Chicago ReaderReader Staff Reader CareersFreelance InformationContact UsBecome a memberDonate, AdvertiseSubmit/promote your eventFind the PaperSubscribeShop the Reader StoreContests/Giveaways/Promotions. Schell reviewed her book favorably in the New York Times. He could see the travel was taking a toll on her. $1 Million. Worse, Chang had started out as a computer science major and switched with Kamens encouragement. The newlyweds settled in Santa Barbara, and Iris began writing the book about Tsien. At Reed's Sport Shop one month after her death, the spot on the top shelf of the glass-topped case where Iris' gun had lain was still vacant. It's a date he won't forget. NANKING-02/B/19JULY98/SC/TK=IRIS Chang autographing "Rape of Nanking" Sunday at the Treasure Island exhibit. ", Rabiner became worried, too. One picture she sent showed Iris hugging Martel and his wife. She wound up committing suicide after finishing her book about the Rape of Nanking. 36 year-old iris chang, the prominent chinese american She was 36. But friends say Iris began to voice concerns for her safety. In her last call to Kamen, Chang had alluded to highly placed people who didnt like her once again digging into Japanese atrocities during World War II. . The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. She was 36. But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. 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 a serious child, her mother recalled. So you see, she was really a fighter. THEY ARE AT THE CHINESE AMERICAN MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER / CULTURE TO CULTURE FOUNDATION. ", After studying the final results of the Santa Clara Country medical examiner's report, Baker closed his investigation March 1, 2005. They went to bed at midnight. She's very much a perfectionist. Born in China, educated at M.I.T. Whether it was the CIA or some other organization I will never know. . Iris Chang died on November 9, 2004. It read: "I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. Generally, there's an apology. 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. But Rabiner had been looking for someone conversant in the sciences and in Mandarin to write a biography of Hsue-Shen Tsien. 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. Dive into our most recent stories and exclusive insights from our editors and staff. ". She lived in San Jose, California in the final years of her life.[6][7]. 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. People tend to think that clinical depression is like a bad-hair day. "The stress of writing this book and living with this horror on a daily basis caused my weight to plummet," she said. At the same time, her foes said her suicide proved that "Rape of Nanking" was nothing but lies. But today Christopher is healthy. "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' 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. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" "It's amazing when you watch Iris do research," Brett said. Speaking of the night they met, Brett said, "Iris was beautiful, vivacious -- and sober. Photos for a profile of Iris Chang, a prominent author and historian, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Both parts merge in "The Woman Who Could Not Forget," a memoir by . We've seen a lot of suicides. It didn't take him long to propose, but their 1989 engagement stretched out while Brett finished grad school in Urbana. "Christopher sensed that something was going wrong with Iris," Brett 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). After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, she pursued a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She spent her childhood in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. ", Iris connected so well with these veterans because each of their stories mattered to her. Such "black powder" firearms, popular with Civil War re-enactors, require skill to load and fire. Liz Mangelsdorf / The Chronicle. Iris Chang rang the doorbell on Ed Martel's front porch in Kenosha, Wis., on Dec. 4, 2003. ", His voice slipped to a whisper. The sound of children singing wafted in from the swimming pool nearby. "Iris was very sensitive. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. 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]. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. "But as I was leaving, she got apathetic again. My sincere condolences to Mr. Douglas and to young Christopher. "Iris was suffering from clinical depression," she said, "and it deepened rapidly over a period of about three months. [2] The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory. A lot of people misunderstood her in that way. Paula Kamen digs deep into the ambitious life and tragic death of her most successful friend. The first was short, titled "Statement of Iris Chang." Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Chang adalah anak perempuan dari dua profesor yang lahir di Tiongkok yang kemudian berimigrasi ke Amerika Serikat dari Taiwan. From the terrace, the view was peaceful -- broad green fields and golden poplars. But now that legacy has also found a home in a museum in China dedicated to her work. Brett said Iris was anxious to get back to work. The imprisonment of Tsien Hsue-shen during the height of the McCarthy era has been compared to U.S. mistreatment of Wen Ho Lee, a Los Alamos scientist accused of passing secret nuclear data to mainland China. 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. 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. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT, iris chang and bataan march survivor ed martel and his wife courtesy ed martel, THIS IS A HANDOUT IMAGE. 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. Lived In Union MO, Alabaster AL, Jacksonville FL, Lake Villa IL. As the coffin was lowered into the ground, the black-clad tribe of mourners formed a line. 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. After sending out more than 100 e-mails, Iris Chang received a reply from Ursula Reinhardt . The gunsmith told police he had spotted a can of gunpowder in the bag. Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. Their mothers helped to plan the wedding. This could be a one-time event or it could signal the onset of bipolar disorder, the doctors told them. Some 8,000 died on the notorious "death march." 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. Director. 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. In 1991, Chang married Bretton Lee Douglas, a design engineer for Cisco Systems, whom she had met in college, and had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of her suicide. He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. 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. At 9:15 a.m. Tuesday, a county water district employee drove past the Oldsmobile. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. I was worried. AKA Iris Shun-Ru Chang. The late Iris Chang was eulogized in simultaneous ceremonies in northern California, Washington and Nanjing, China on Friday. 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. Reader's Digest devoted a cover story to her. 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. Iris Chang wrote those lines in 1978, when she was 10, . Iris Chang 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 "Iris thought it was an injustice. "My dad was so excited that she was doing this, and so honored.". After a breakdown five months ago, Chang had been. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) ", They had moved from a small apartment in Sunnyvale to the San Jose townhome. "She didn't like the idea that she was taking medicine," her father said. When her body was discovered, Iris Chang had been dead for two hours. "Yes!" After publication of the book, Chang campaigned to persuade the Japanese government to apologize for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation. "And she brought an incredible reserve of emotion to it. Now, in THE CHINESE IN AMERICA: A Narrative History (Viking; On-sale Date: April 28, 2003) Chang explores the history of one of this countrys fastest growing ethnic groups. "He made breakfast for me," she said. "Though I had heard so much about the Nanking massacre as a child, nothing prepared me for these pictures -- stark black-and-white images of decapitated heads, bellies ripped open and nude women forced by their rapists into various pornographic poses, their faces contorted into unforgettable expressions of agony and shame. Chang grew up hearing stories about the Nanking massacre, from which her maternal grandparents managed to escape. A groundswell of interest in the Chinese American community had quickly spread to booksellers and the broader reading public. The result, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, out this month from Da Capo Press, details Changs celebrated and controversial career as a journalist and historical author as well as Kamens relationship with her. 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.". "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. At the Gate of Heaven Catholic Cemetery in Los Altos Hills, the photograph stood on an easel before the chapel. ", Iris' parents retired in early 2001, and after Christopher was born, they moved from Illinois and into a home in the same complex. Brett's father, Ken Douglas, had flown out to keep his son company. Winning that prize led to dreams of becoming a writer, her father said. . Others wondered if Changs choice of subject matter was somehow to blame. View this record View. "She would just say, matter-of-factly, 'Japan is lying and here's why.' They kept in touch every day by e-mail. Tsien was a top physicist at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was deported during the Red scare of the 1950s. "We set out a very big lunch -- meat trays and sandwiches and desserts," she said. 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. I told her that I wanted her to call me the next night and every night after that until she worked out the details. You have a young kid. I promise not to hurt myself. Iris Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey, daughter of immigrant parents, Professors Shau-Jin() and Ying-Ying() Chang and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where she earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1989. 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. The first was John Rabe, a German member of the Nazi party who was living in the Chinese capital in 1937. and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer. 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. The correspondent was Sgt. "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. 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. The number of calls to Asian Community Mental Health Services spiked in the days after Iris Chang's death. Director. 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. 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. She walked through the whooshing automatic doors and turned right. Waking at 5 a.m., Brett saw Iris was gone. [4] During her time in college she also worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, and wrote six front-page articles over the course of one year. Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. -- Did her single-minded determination, her habit of working beyond exhaustion, contribute to her death? Brett set up a home gym in the basement and coached her through hourlong workouts with hand weights. She had been sad for several months, but she didn't seem in an acute phase. Turning right, she pulled into the strip mall across the street from the school. he said, grinning. "Not only because she started thinking about writing The Rape of Nanking in Cupertino, but also because she gave speeches in Cupertino many times, this book signing event in Cupertino is significant to me.". According to Brett Douglas, who married Iris Chang in 1991, all the information his wife gathered during her stay in Nanjing, was "distilled and filtered" in the writing process, when she was "working 70-hour weeks". "Every day she seemed to have something new. The water district employee called his supervisor, who called 911. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. Event on 11/19/04 in Los Altos Hills Eric Luse / The Chronicle Ran on: 11-20-2004 "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. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. The small, academically elite school has produced many Nobel laureates. "She was in on more than one occasion," said Reed's manager, Pat Kalcic, a tall outdoorsman. Her maternal grandparents had escaped just weeks before the Japanese arrived. She finally agreed that she would talk to me. ", Between trips to the Midwest, Iris conducted yet another book tour. ", Between August and November, Iris saw two different therapists before finding one who seemed a good fit. 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. Iris arrived at the gunsmith's at about 2 p.m., carrying a Reed's Sport Shop Bag. CHANG2-C-29APR03-DD-HO.jpg 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? "She was very tired," her mother said. The Police Department drafted a missing person's report. She was easily hurt, though sometimes she didn't show it. The foyer was filled with enormous bouquets sent by well-wishers. Chang is survived by Bretton Douglas, her husband, and son, Christopher. including Chang's husband Brett Douglas and the couple's 2-year-old son, Christopher. After two years at Princeton, the family moved to a Midwestern college town, Champaign-Urbana, in Illinois. 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. Iris Chang (), before her untimely death, was one of America's leading young historians. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind, 2023 police district councils voter guide, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to. Date Of Birth. ', "Much of the conversation was upbeat. But some scholars felt that she was a little too involved with her subject matter. Best Match AGE 20s Christopher Lee Douglas Louisville, KY (East Louisville) Phone Number Address Background Report Addresses Waxwing Pl, Louisville, KY Forest St, Fairborn, OH This bio was written at the time of Iris Chang's posthumous inauguration into the 2006 Illini Media Hall of Fame. She was mad. Meanwhile, Iris was one of a dozen journalism undergraduates chosen for an accelerated Associated Press training program. Iris Chang's Birthday is March 28,1968, The zodiac sign:Aries [13], Chang's visibility as a public figure increased with her final work, The Chinese in America. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. It was a Thursday, nine days after her death. "Clearly, Iris was a strong, smart and directed young woman," Rabiner said. I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. "She was like a battalion commander," Meldahl said. They met again at Taiwan University -- and yet again when each won a science scholarship to Harvard in 1962. copy photo of a poster promoting Iris Chang's book "The Rape of Nanking" When Martel read in a newspaper about her death, he asked his daughter, "Is that our Iris? Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. Structural Info. He framed it and hung it on a wall in his home. Culliton was sufficiently impressed by Iris' talent to recommend her to Susan Rabiner, editorial director of Basic Books, the "serious nonfiction" division of HarperCollins Publishers. To me, it was part of that whole intensity that made Iris able to do what she went on to do. I was there for three days and we talked. iris changs family Her obituary was published in newspapers worldwide. Meldahl was now urging Iris to join his oral-history project. He stopped and honked but there was no response. Iris Chang lived and worked in California. Rumors swirled in the early days after her suicide. The lack of sleep can exacerbate the illness and vice versa. 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. "We are a very close family. ", While writing the book, Iris found it "almost impossible to separate myself from the tragedy," she said. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. Just do it!" Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. He thought Iris was improving.". December 8-9, 2007, The Weekend Australian. Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! Getting ready for the trip, Iris went into overdrive. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorderwhich Chang rejectedjust two weeks before her suicide. "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. The Committee of 100 is a national non-partisan organization composed of American citizens of Chinese descent who have achieved positions of leadership in the United States in a broad range of professions. Iris had been haunted since childhood by the graphic stories she was told about Nanking. It seemed like a lot of odd behavior started around that time, Kamen says. 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. I've been thinking about this kid for ten years, ever since I learned of his story. Christopher Douglas's age is 53. 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. In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. 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. After eloquent eulogies by family and friends, a tribute written by U. S. Rep. Michael Honda was recited, which he had read into the Congressional Record earlier that week: "Her fierce pride of her Chinese American heritage empowered others with the certainty that they were truly Americans Our community has lost a role model and close friend; the world has lost one of its finest and most passionate advocates of social and historical justice. Her mother concurred: "At AP, she worked so hard she couldn't sleep. "She was so driven," Brett said, "she just wouldn't take time off." Iris Chang was the intelligent daughter of two university professors who emigrated from China. A reassuring presence, he stood at the kitchen counter, fixing a sandwich for lunch. Iris Chang : biography March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004 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". Ed Martel's story began on Dec. 7, 1941. They had spent one hour together. She harbored hundreds of Chinese women and children there during the occupation. Chang was born in Princeton, New Jersey and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The Chang laboratory studies the chemistry of biology and energy. 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