', In a way Finding Iris Chang is Kamens way of Iris Chang-ing it. 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. ", 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. The event was organized by Global Alliance and the Rape of Nanking Redress Coalition. The whole process, how she planned everything, is very, very methodical., Kamen says Chang never understood how her drive pissed people off. "Rape of Nanking" became an immediate best-seller and established her as an outspoken advocate for victims of Japanese war crimes. And she was determined not to be hospitalized again. The nanny was the only person aware that Iris had been up for three days with no sleep. Iris told her mother that working on it was a vacation after "Rape of Nanking. The tragedy of Iris Chang Chang, a San Jose resident, took her own life in Los Gatos at age 36. She was 26. 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. The next morning, Friday, Nov. 19, dawned cold, clear and sunny. 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. Generally, there's an apology. Blood covered her clothes. She was diagnosed with bipolar disorderwhich Chang rejectedjust two weeks before her suicide. Ying-Ying is a biochemist. I don't know how many printings it went through. She never did sleep very well or eat very well.". [15], Iris Chang Park in San Jose, that opened in November 2019, is a municipal park dedicated to Chang. She did, and, starting in November 2003, would make four trips to meet with Bataan vets -- in Wisconsin, Illinois, Ohio and Kentucky. Iris Chang. Kuang's debut novel, The Poppy War, is dedicated to Iris Chang. John Rylands Research Institute and Library. he cried. ", Between August and November, Iris saw two different therapists before finding one who seemed a good fit. She would just laugh.". She said she was confronted by a man who said, "You will NOT continue writing this. " Iris Chang lived and worked in California. Just do it!" We arranged for her to come down and stay with me soon," she said. The war she lost raged withinby Heidi Benson. Their mothers helped to plan the wedding. He was misled by Iris. Many families sent me emails after reading my book," said Chang, citing an example of a couple shocked by the suicide of their daughter, a Stanford graduate who seemed to have a bright future. She was 36. "Depression is a silent epidemic among Asian Americans because we tend not to seek help soon enough," Hong said. She was best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking . She used a post office box, never her home address, for mail. Their second child, Michael, was born in 1970. "But this time, I had assumed she was sleeping all day after working all night. This could be a one-time event or it could signal the onset of bipolar disorder, the doctors told them. Nov. 10, 2004, 7:53 PM PST / Source: The Associated Press. 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. 36 year-old Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist who wrote the best-selling . Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. -- Was she "the last victim of the Rape of Nanking," plagued and destroyed by the dark histories she illuminated? In loving commemoration of Iris Chang-A Powerful Voice for Victims of the Forgotten Asian Holocaust. "She had so many bookings, she could easily be on the road for 2 1/2 weeks before coming back home. Consistent with the style of her earlier works, the book relies heavily on personal accounts, drawing its strong emotional content from their stories. "Why did he have to toy with me like that?" "There's a book I must do," she said. After dinner Monday night, Iris returned a call to her agent. She wrote three books, which made her visible as a public figure. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (Hanzi tradisional: . "We are a very close family. Then she got back up again. It was hard for her not to react every single time. It was the first history of Japan's brutal 1937 occupation of China's capital city and documented the weekslong rampage. ", "Iris truly had no fear. She easily passed the 20 exams necessary to qualify, only to be told that she must take five more. 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. Either she was watching Christopher or I was watching Christopher, or she was working or I was working. She's very much a perfectionist. 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.". She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." It was a Thursday, nine days after her death. If they had let her get into Submit, she may not have become a journalist," he added. "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. That night, she had dinner with her husband of 13 years, Brett Douglas. (In the book, Iris noted that Vautrin had graduated with honors from her own alma mater, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.) The first was John Rabe, a German member of the Nazi party who was living in the Chinese capital in 1937. I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. Born in China, educated at M.I.T. In her goodbye note, Iris described her guilt about having allowed her son, Christopher, to be vaccinated before the age of 2. 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. Thread of the Silkworm. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. 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 . Her last Bataan trip was scheduled for July 2004. and Cal Tech, Tsien became a professor at both universities and a brilliant space age pioneer. In the picture, Iris was standing, her head bowed in prayer like a saint or an angel. You could see it in the steadiness of her voice and in her persistence," Zia recalled. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. In 1995, at age 27, Chang flew from California to Nanjing in East China's Jiangsu province. She went to the Chicago Tribune instead, but didn't enjoy "politicking for assignments," Brett said. In the final version, she added: "There are aspects of my experience in Louisville that I will never understand. 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. Like others, Kamen had wondered if postpartum depression might have played a role in her mental decline. Another person Chang said she should thank most is Richard Rhodes, who wrote the book's introduction. Throughout her life, Chang was instrumental in capturing Asian-American history. "There was a time earlier, in September, when we were worried, but she seemed to come out of that. Box. 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. 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". It's very hard to believe that there is something wrong with your mind," said Dr. David Lo, director of Santa Cruz Mental Health Services and former director of Chinatown Mental Health Center in San Francisco. Brett set up a home gym in the basement and coached her through hourlong workouts with hand weights. She said she had never thought she would write a book unrelated to science, and in English, her second language, but she did. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate. In the fall of 1990, Iris took Finkbeiner's "Science Stories" course. The debate it provoked -- between those Japanese who deny the atrocities and the Chinese who seek an official apology and reparations -- continues. ", Most of the attacks came from Japanese ultranationalists. Such harsh logic, symptomatic of the disease, rendered her unable to extend her own magnificent compassion to herself. Each breath is becoming difficult for me to takethe anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. He immediately called the police. "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. This was not her first visit. 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. They are the ones who brought her up." "Iris was suffering from clinical depression," she said, "and it deepened rapidly over a period of about three months. It was well- reviewed, though it never sold in great numbers. ", Iris was a serious child, her mother recalled. 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. When Martel read in a newspaper about her death, he asked his daughter, "Is that our Iris? It didn't take him long to propose, but their 1989 engagement stretched out while Brett finished grad school in Urbana. In 2017, the Iris Chang Memorial Hall was built in Huai'an, China. And Iris would buy lunch and dinner for everybody, and they all thought it was great. Andrew Nickolds obituary. In a single blinding moment I recognized the fragility of not just life but the human experience itself.". "We spoke for two hours, from 8:30 to 10:30 p.m.," Rabiner said. She was trying to be a top-notch mother and she was also trying to prepare for her trip.". It caused an international scandal because the Japanese to this day have not conceded the extent of the wartime atrocities perpetrated against the Chinese and others. "We went out and did really long hikes, and it seemed to help. He noticed condensation on the windows, peered inside and saw Iris in the driver's seat with her hands crossed in her lap. It read: "I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. But Kalcic and his employees did not know how unusual Iris Chang was: a world- renowned author whose work had stirred international controversy. . But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. "When anybody questioned the validity of what she wrote, she would respond with overwhelming evidence to back it up. They made an appointment. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. They attended lectures but Iris gave fewer talks; she was still recovering from the book tour. Scope and Contents note One compact sound cassette. She was 22. [2] Contents [hide] 1 Early life 2 Works 3 Public notability 4 Depression . 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. Iris Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' Copy photo of Iris Chang with her husband Brett Douglas and their son at his birthday party. Speculation that she may have been killed by Japanese ultranationalists continued to turn up on Web logs and Internet chat rooms. I knew immediately I wanted to spend the rest of my life with her.". She was too strong-willed not to.". General 1994-2003. . "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." ', "Much of the conversation was upbeat. ", As Iris' good friend Barbara Masin said, "Those who are close to her did everything that they possibly could have done. 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 Douglas finally told Kamen that Christopher had been born with the help of a surrogate mother. That afternoon, she checked herself in to Norton Psychiatric Hospital in Louisville, with help from the colonel. "She would go into a town -- and with Tony Meldahl's help, it was even better. Their famous daughter, whose 1997 bestseller, The Rape of Nanking, unearthed the forgotten holocaust of the Second World War when . The mustache reminded his Japanese captors of "The Little Tramp." "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. 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 . She harbored hundreds of Chinese women and children there during the occupation. "Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. For Asian Americans to write nonfiction about Asia or Asian America was relatively new. When her internship was up, Iris was offered a permanent job at AP. 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. Before dawn, Iris awoke and got into her car. I was there for three days and we talked. 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. Iris collapsed in bed. I believe my detention at Norton Hospital was the government's attempt to discredit me. "She would just say, matter-of-factly, 'Japan is lying and here's why.' Iris Chang - The woman who loved truth. The air was still, heavy with grief. 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. Now, it becomes our treasure. They approached the open casket, where they stopped, gazed at her for a final time and bowed three times, in Chinese custom. ", Seeing how the survivors lived was as harrowing as hearing their stories. "Over a year and a half, she visited 65 cities," Brett said. "It's going to be very emotional to talk about Iris in Cupertino," said Chang. Kamen loved Chang, but she was determined not to "write a Hallmark card," either. ", Despite support from esteemed historians and journalists, including Stephen Ambrose and George Will, some judged Iris' version of history too subjective. 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. 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. . "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. Everything points to suicide.". While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. ", At the same time, torrents of hate mail came in, Brett said. At 12:40 p.m., she stopped for lunch at FujiSan Sushi in Milpitas Square. After leaving Reed's Sport Shop at noon on Monday, Nov. 8, Iris tried to load the revolver she had just purchased. "During the massacre some had received physical injuries so severe they had been prevented from making a decent living for decades. "Iris was very sensitive. 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. Normally, Iris never did interviews alone. He established an International Safety Zone in Nanking before the Japanese soldiers arrived from Shanghai. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. . ", Rabiner, who later became an agent and represented Iris, said, "The book was beyond well reviewed -- it was a mega-best-seller that continues to sell. There's a girl who wants to get into Submit,' " Mr. Chang recalled. And she loved it. "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. Some 300,000 Chinese people were brutally killed; about 100,000 women were raped in matter of 4 to 5 weeks. It was very painful for me to think about, even then. "Tell me why you want to tell the story.". But friends say Iris began to voice concerns for her safety. Her parents saw her off that morning. So you see, she was really a fighter. "Did you really look like Charlie Chaplin?" "We marvel at how America turned their backs on us. The acclaimed author of The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II, who committed suicide on November 9, "felt other people's suffering so intensely, to the point that it made her suffer," said her friend Barbara Masin in a eulogy delivered at a memorial prior to Chang's burial in Los Altos, California. "She was so driven," Brett said, "she just wouldn't take time off." In early 2004, she traveled to promote the paperback version of "The Chinese in America." Just what had happened to Chang was a mystery. From the terrace, the view was peaceful -- broad green fields and golden poplars. They made an appointment to meet Wednesday at the firing range. Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Brett said Iris was anxious to get back to work. Worse, Chang had started out as a computer science major and switched with Kamens encouragement. I t is a critical cliche to call plays disturbing. It was obvious she wasn't the same person that she was before," he said. Christopher Douglas Retweeted. Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. They brought her home, and at first Iris responded well to rest and treatment. By Douglas on 09-05-09 Sample The Rape of Nanking; By: Iris Chang . Confirmed cities for the rest of this year include Menlo Park, Chicago, Washington D.C., and Boston. "I had to write it, if it was the last thing I ever did in my life. The Police Department drafted a missing person's report. "Iris was impatient. Your Privacy Choices (Opt Out of Sale/Targeted Ads). Comedy writer who worked on Maureen Lipman's Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon's Week and Dave Podmore. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II. Iris Chang loved life, her mother said: "I want people to know Iris, not just her suicide. "He got the job, we went," Mrs. Chang explained. Schell reviewed her book favorably in the New York Times. She got from the airport to the hotel, but that was all she could do. 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. I didn't really care if I made a cent from it. 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. ", He added, sadly, "I think if we had, I would have noticed earlier that things were going wrong.". . 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. [2] $ 4.69 - $ 6.59. "Poetry by Iris Chang" was written in neat cursive on the title page. Get our free daily newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Monday through Friday. When they were both journalism students in the late 80s at the University of Illinois in Urbana, it was Chang who won the prized internships. But for us to be able to write nonfiction, the stories of our lives -- on a lot of levels, it was revolutionary. Her husband, Shau-Jin, is a theoretical physicist. To me, it was part of that whole intensity that made Iris able to do what she went on to do. Iris arrived at the gunsmith's at about 2 p.m., carrying a Reed's Sport Shop Bag. PLEASE VERIFY RIGHTS. She didn't just ask what had happened, she asked what they had felt. (Photo/Robert Spencer)on 5/5/03 in New York. Christopher Douglas was born on 26 August 1969 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA. She just seemed to be more driven and to have more zest for life than anyone I'd ever met. 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. 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. She found the diaries of a pair of Westerners who were among the heroes of Nanking. Every suicide is the tragic terminus of a tangle of roads, a route unique as a thumbprint. [5] She then embarked on her career as an author and lectured and wrote magazine articles. He returned to China and went on to develop its missile system. I was worried. It was unusual for Basic Books to consider such an untested writer. "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. The conference had been sponsored by the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia. Iris Chang was the daughter of two university professors, Ying-Ying Chang and Dr. Shau-Jin Chang, who moved from mainland China to Taiwan and eventually emigrated to the United States. . That such a beautiful woman would be remembered is not unusual. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang said she never took any antidepressants when devastated by Iris' death. Then, in high school, Iris became determined to revive the school's literary magazine, and quickly enlisted a staff and a sponsor. She would have a team of three vets and their children and their wives. The number of calls to Asian Community Mental Health Services spiked in the days after Iris Chang's death. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. 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. "But Iris herself did not believe she was sick." She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. "And then we stretched it to six, and then 'The Rape of Nanking' hit the best-seller list and she was out promoting it for almost two years. Chang tells the story of a rocket scientist, Tsien Hsue-Shen, who was born in China in 1911 and educated in the United States. She told him she had not asked for instructions when she bought the gun. ", Three days before Iris' death, Brett dreamed up a special weekend, just for her. "Iris was so excited when she got the contract for the book," Brett said, recalling how obsessively she ferreted out material. "A lack of sleep is one of the hallmark symptoms of mania," Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison, author of "Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide," told The Chronicle. She was very depressed." 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. They just kept saying, 'We'll print another 10,000, we'll print another 10,000.' By now, Brett was living in Santa Barbara, working toward a doctorate in electrical engineering at the University of California. His daughter recalled that in telling Iris this story, he got terribly worked up. "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. But just before Iris left for Kentucky -- the last week of July 2004 -- a family emergency forced the teacher to cancel. 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