Nov. 11, 2004 12 AM PT. Sluggishness is a common side effect of Depakote, because it subdues the manic phase of bipolar disorder by depressing the central nervous system. Such harsh logic, symptomatic of the disease, rendered her unable to extend her own magnificent compassion to herself. The first was short, titled "Statement of Iris Chang." "She was in on more than one occasion," said Reed's manager, Pat Kalcic, a tall outdoorsman. "It's all for the sake of and in memory of my beloved daughter," Chang said. When you do not, you live not just by the day but by the minute. ", Her father patted the tabletop. But friends say Iris began to voice concerns for her safety. "I knew Iris was not right," her mother said. ". 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. "It's baffling to me that the U.S. today has so little knowledge of the four months we held out," Martel told The Chronicle by telephone from his home in Wisconsin. And that really took its toll on her, too.". Let go, We all said, 'Take a break.' But just in time, Iris changed the subject, prompting him to tell a lighter story. So was her car. John Rylands Research Institute and Library. 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." I thought it would break the spell, break the hold of these emotions. 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". After Iris Chang's Oldsmobile was found off Highway 17 on Tuesday morning, Nov. 9, the California Highway Patrol was called to the scene. "We went out and did really long hikes, and it seemed to help. Chang said she never took any antidepressants when devastated by Iris' death. "Iris scraped away the scar tissue of something that had been half forgotten and half healed over, and to this date, it's still a very raw wound, " said Orville Schell, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Iris Chang's coffen was carried to a waiting hearst and a short drive to the burial site at the cemetary. She touched her fingertips to her forehead, then waved her hand to the heavens: "It's because Iris is a dreamer." The official cause of death was a self-inflicted gunshot. We don't work that way," Rabiner insisted. Haunted by the belief that she had failed, Vautrin suffered a breakdown in 1940. . Some became overwrought with emotion during the interviews and broke down into tears. He and Emily Harper both appeared on the soap opera Passions. "This was something of a roots venture for her -- to reconnect with the country that her family had drifted off from," said UC Berkeley's Schell. ", The book's popularity meant a lengthy book tour. 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. This bustling city of 6 million glimmers. Born in China, educated at M.I.T. If they had let her get into Submit, she may not have become a journalist," he added. The medicine made her feel sluggish. It was hard for her not to react every single time. She helped Iris write a proposal and the project was quickly put under contract. "But gradually, she became very depressed," said her father, adding that her doctor in California prescribed an additional medication, an antidepressant. Now, it becomes our treasure. She liked to talk, so it's very fun to watch her talking," she said. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. She had been sad for several months, but she didn't seem in an acute phase. This kind of "black powder" is unstable and unsafe indoors, so he insisted she first take the can outside. She added one more reason when talking to Patchto help those who lost loved ones like herself heal. Iris discovered this group of Chinese American activists after she and Brett moved to Northern California when he got a job with Cisco Systems. Success! Iris insisted she had already passed. One picture she sent showed Iris hugging Martel and his wife. Iris would be working solo. It didn't take him long to propose, but their 1989 engagement stretched out while Brett finished grad school in Urbana. But as she began to manifest symptoms of bipolar illness, she perceived them as a failure of will. 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 . "She couldn't eat or drink. Each breath is becoming difficult for me to take -- the anxiety can be compared to drowning in an open sea. 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. Hundreds gathered for the memorial service and burial. Her second book, The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997),[9] was published on the 60th anniversary of the Nanking Massacre and was motivated in part by her own grandparents' stories about their escape from the massacre. 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. 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". On a cloudy Monday morning in early November, author Iris Chang, 36, drove her white 1999 Oldsmobile Alero down Alum Rock Avenue toward the green foothills of East San Jose. Others wondered if Changs choice of subject matter was somehow to blame. The Highway Patrol then called the Santa Clara Sheriff's homicide unit and detective Sgt. Born: 28-Mar-1968 Birthplace: Princeton, NJ . This put her under enormous stress. In her international bestseller, "The Rape of Nanking," Chang examined one of the most tragic chapters of World War II: the mass execution of soldiers and theslaughter, rape and torture oftens of tens of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former capital of China. According to the police report, Iris phoned a local gunsmith, an antique firearms specialist who did business from his home. Iris Chang, author of "The Rape of Nanking", ended her life with a pistol on November 9, 2004. 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. One speaker called Iris "a hero for those muffled by injustice." Fleetwood Mask is coming to the Montgomery Theater! In 1937, Vautrin was a missionary and teacher at the Nanking Women's College when its campus became part of the Safety Zone. She wrote her 100-page book proposal in a couple of weeks.". She told him she had an old revolver that was unsafe to shoot. "They drop so fast," the letter had read. She was also promoting The Chinese in America. ", Baker explained his conclusion: "There's no evidence that any kind of conspiracy caused her death. Editor's note: An earlier version of this article had the incorrect location for Ying-Ying Chang's book signing. 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 Chang was married to Brett Douglas in 1991 and their son Christopher was born in 2002. iris during college years with mr and mrs chang and brother michael courtesy chang family, Event on 11/16/04 in San Jose. Iris Chang always outdid Paula Kamen. A groundswell of interest in the Chinese American community had quickly spread to booksellers and the broader reading public. "Twice I broke down and had to leave the room.". After the release from the hospital, she continued to suffer from depression and experienced the side effects of several medications she was taking. Schell reviewed her book favorably in the New York Times. "I knew writing would be more helpful to me than medicine.". "The boys came together to say, 'Crisis! ER 2002-08 . While on the ship home, she tried repeatedly to leap overboard. Upon his return to China, Tsien developed the Dongfeng missile program, and later the Silkworm missile, which was used by the Iraqi military during its war on Iran and against the United States-led coalitions during the Persian Gulf War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. By the time her plane landed in Louisville, she was overwhelmed by exhaustion and anxiety. In 2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose. 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. They made an appointment. When the American general surrendered on April 9, the Japanese forced the troops to walk 65 miles through sweltering jungle. View this record View. And she loved it. Background Iris Chang was born on March 28, 1968, Princeton, New Jersey, to a family of Taiwan migrants. 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. I told her that I wanted her to call me the next night and every night after that until she worked out the details. ", Then she wrote a suicide note -- addressed to her parents, Brett and her brother -- followed by a lengthy revision. His daughter, Maddy, remembered the day well, too. Though her work life was not without controversy, she seemed to be a very successful woman, driven by the need to share the dark corners of history with the world. ", Rising from his chair, her father pulled a small red leather volume from the bookshelf. But all of them wanted the opportunity to talk about the massacre before their deaths. Iris Chang wrote those lines in 1978, when she was 10, . She lived in San Jose, California in the final years of her life.[6][7]. She preferred to meet someone in each town who could introduce her to the veterans and their families. Brett Douglas was a tall, low-key redhead, nearly two years her senior and an engineering graduate student when they were introduced at a Sigma Phi Delta fraternity party on campus. Without treatment, the condition worsens over time. She passed the football field and the blocky, concrete auditorium of James Lick High School. Thinking the driver must be asleep, he got out of his car and banged on the hood. 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. January 26, 2008, Sunday Star-Times magazine The motorist who went to investigate the white Oldsmobile parked just off highway 17, which runs between San Jose and Santa Cruz in Northern California, was a county employee. 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. It was sort of scary as a journalist to be thinking, if this could happen to her and she supposedly had no history [of mental illness], and she was so much more put together than I am, just for me the question was how to survive our toxic topics. The Police Department drafted a missing person's report. "It is because of these types of wording and the vagueness of such expressions that Chinese people, I think, are infuriated," was her reaction. "Iris told me now was not the time to go on with the Bataan project. For her, it was a relief," said Masin. Iris Chang. She got from the airport to the hotel, but that was all she could do. 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. "Iris could write two or three stories a day, and they loved her because she wrote so fast," he said. "The doctors wanted her to continue in therapy, so sometimes they would go along with her. Iris Chang, who has committed suicide aged 36, was one of the most promising historians in America and a vigorous champion of human rights. At the first memorial -- that evening's "visitation" -- friends signed the guest book and offered condolences to the family. Then she got back up again. They just kept saying, 'We'll print another 10,000, we'll print another 10,000.' "She's very strong- willed," her mother said. She knew that in California, she could purchase a relic immediately and avoid the 10-day waiting period necessary with other guns. And maybe more than the first two books I wrote combined, too.. "I believe Iris in heaven would want me to do this, to channel my sadness into something positive.". He thought Iris was improving.". Finally, the group stood to sing a halting but heartfelt rendition of "Amazing Grace.". he cried. Shed already spoken with Changs widower, Brett Douglas, and knew about the fertility treatments the couple had undergone in order to have their son, Christopher, who was born in 2002. Iris Chang - Class of 1985 Iris Shun-Ru Chang () was an award-winning Chinese-American journalist, political activist, and acclaimed author. It happens every day of the week, and people just don't know it because people don't talk about it.". ", Three days before Iris' death, Brett dreamed up a special weekend, just for her. Their second child, Michael, was born in 1970. [19], When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. "She didn't like other people taking control, so she resisted" his attending any of her therapy sessions. Back in Illinois one year later, she committed suicide. Somehow, she always bounced back, energized by her role as spokesperson for a movement. Andrew Nickolds obituary. Net Worth. "Iris was very loving," Martel's daughter said. "Iris used to say she never understood why people would commit suicide, so she was definitely not a suicidal type," said Chang. But there were untold numbers of women she could not save from capture, torture or death at the hands of Japanese soldiers. ", Barbara Culliton, now editor in chief of Genome News Network, was then director of the Johns Hopkins science writing program. 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. 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. She was 36. The number of calls to Asian Community Mental Health Services spiked in the days after Iris Chang's death. The most startling thing Kamen uncovered about Chang, however, didnt emerge until after Finding Iris Chang was set in galleys. Register for a user account. 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. "It boggles the imagination, what you went through," she said. The manager knew her as a customer and an author -- Iris and Brett ate there often. Normally, Iris never did interviews alone. Deep down I suspect that you may have more answers about this than I do. FINDING IRIS CHANG: FRIENDSHIP, AMBITION, AND THE LOSS OF AN EXTRAORDINARY MIND Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. Newsweek ran an excerpt, and soon Iris was a familiar face on TV news shows. He is an actor, known for The Young and the Restless (1973), Playing Mona Lisa (2000) and Cyber Bandits (1995). Iris Chang is best known for two things: writing the explosive bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," and then killing herself. Smith said the colonel spent only a short time with her. Iris Chang rang the doorbell on Ed Martel's front porch in Kenosha, Wis., on Dec. 4, 2003. Either she was watching Christopher or I was watching Christopher, or she was working or I was working. "He reminded me to eat and to take a walk when I was writing all day, forgetting everything else.". In 1998, she and Brett were invited to attend Renaissance Weekend -- the meeting-of-the-minds seminar held each New Year's weekend in South Carolina. Soon she managed to call her mother. Ms. Chang received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Illinois in 1989. The clerk who sold her the gun told investigators Iris had said she collected antique firearms. ", While writing the book, Iris found it "almost impossible to separate myself from the tragedy," she said. Later she married Bretton Lee Douglas. She earned a degree in journalism from the University of Illinois and a Masters in Science Writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland. "But he spoke to her mother on the phone and told Iris, 'Your mom is on the phone, so it's OK.' ". [2] The independent 2007 documentary film Nanking was based on her work and dedicated to her memory. 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. 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. When her body was discovered, Iris Chang had been dead for two hours. He went to her desk in her upstairs office and found a note next to the computer. We go through her and her husband's (Brett Douglas) house in San jose. Her mother concurred: "At AP, she worked so hard she couldn't sleep. She would just laugh.". Box. 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 bought this house when we knew he was on the way. The views expressed in this post are the author's own. Lived In Union MO, Alabaster AL, Jacksonville FL, Lake Villa IL. "It's amazing when you watch Iris do research," Brett said. She's very much a perfectionist. "But the side effect of psychiatric drugs changed her personality and prompted her to go that route.". 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. "Iris was impatient. Chang is survived by Bretton Douglas, her husband, and son, Christopher. Comedy writer who worked on Maureen Lipman's Agony, The Lenny Henry Show, Ed Reardon's Week and Dave Podmore. She was 36. Robert Spencer / The Chronicle MANDATORY CREDIT FOR PHOTOG AND SF CHRONICLE/ -MAGS OUT. ", Smith had been Iris' liaison in Wisconsin; another Proviso High teacher was to be her guide in Kentucky. The air was still, heavy with grief. There was still research to do. Mom died, dad attempted to raise the son using classic meek white dad tactics, probably filled the kid's head with delusions about Jesus and stuff. Rumors swirled in the early days after her suicide. To soothe the pain of her loss, it would be tempting to seek a single, simple explanation for the suicide of Iris Chang. "She had never seen anyone for depression or anything before," her mother said. Ran on: 11-20-2004 The Rape of Nanking, about the 1937 massacre of as many as 350,000 soldiers and civilians by Japans imperial army, had been denounced by the Japanese ambassador to the U.S., and caricatures of Chang appeared in right-wing Japanese newspapers. She feared these vaccinations may have caused him to become autistic. An excerpt from an interview with author Iris Chang held during her appearance at the New York State Writers Institute on April 14, 2004. "Iris was much in demand and gave many talks," Brett recalled, adding with a laugh, "she was schmoozing the whole time." In 1992, at 24, she received a $15,000 award from the MacArthur Foundation, which helped fund the project. She wrote her thesis on "The Poetry of Science." "So they tried to make it harder and harder." "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. "It was family lore. "She got what she wanted and got out," he said. Title Type Publication date Author(s) Description; Document:The Mysterious Deaths of Ernest Hemingway and Iris Chang: article: 1 August 2011: Iris Chang was an American journalist, human rights activist, and author. "They had a big fight," he said. Copyright 2011 irischang.net All Rights Reserved. The pool, a turquoise rectangle surrounded by pines, sat at the center of the village-like complex. Classical AF dissonance between pride in her culture and inability to integrate. 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. (The family would not name specific drugs.). In 2007, the documentary Nanking was dedicated to Chang, as well as the Chinese victims of Nanking. Brett devised a "20-Point Plan to Make Iris Well," listing such remedies as going to the beach; calling friends; eating well (on her desk, she kept a book titled "How Food Affects Your Mood" next to her Franklin Planner); and getting exercise. Education Johns Hopkins University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: Children: Christopher: Spouse: Bretton Douglas Related Document. She was 22. Just what had happened to Chang was a mystery. I can never shake my belief that I was being recruited, and later persecuted, by forces more powerful than I could have imagined. It was later discovered that she had left behind three suicide notes each dated November 8, 2004. The water district employee called his supervisor, who called 911. They approached the open casket, where they stopped, gazed at her for a final time and bowed three times, in Chinese custom. "He made breakfast for me," she said. 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