. Later, Brett learned that the nanny had urged Iris to cancel the trip. 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. 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 I promise not to visit Web sites that talk about suicide. In 2007, the documentary Nanking was dedicated to Chang, as well as the Chinese victims of Nanking. "She was so driven," Brett said, "she just wouldn't take time off." Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was a Chinese American journalist, author of historical books and political activist.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. "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. Nov. 10, 2004, 7:53 PM PST / Source: The Associated Press. She never did sleep very well or eat very well.". The news hit Nanjing fast and hard. Her mother said, "She was always publishing something. Box. ", Iris had convinced her doctor to reduce her dosage. Neither did they know she had been bent on suicide. "There was a time earlier, in September, when we were worried, but she seemed to come out of that. "She was like a battalion commander," Meldahl said. It's a disease. Hundreds gathered for the memorial service and burial. I know that my actions will transfer some of this pain to others, indeed those who love me the most. Kamen recalls once commenting on how thorough Changs filing system was: her friend replied, It has to be. These were considered her finest traits. 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.. ", Rabiner became worried, too. "It was family lore. 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Rabiner recalled telling Iris, " 'You're young, but take a flyer.' 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. 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.". Married 41 years, the Changs are a handsome, gracious couple. Kamen says that despite her worldliness, Chang never developed the distancing filters that aid many journalists. 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. ", The book rocketed Iris into the pantheon of American intellectuals. "Iris can be a loner; it doesn't bother her." 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The cycle of mood shifts that distinguish the disease -- from manic highs to depressive lows -- differs with every sufferer. Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American journalist, author of historical books and political activist. Tsien was a top physicist at Cal-Tech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who was deported during the Red scare of the 1950s. 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. Getting ready for the trip, Iris went into overdrive. (Another of Changs unfinished projects was a book on defeating the biological clock.) "Michael is very outgoing, very extroverted -- Iris is different," said Mrs. Chang. Iris and her brother went to University High -- known as Uni High -- on the campus where their parents taught. "Iris was so excited when she got the contract for the book," Brett said, recalling how obsessively she ferreted out material. 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 was first and foremost an advocate. Published by Basic Books on December 1997 (the 60th anniversary of the massacre) and in paperback by Penguin in 1998, "The Rape of Nanking" the first, full-length English-language narrative of the atrocity to reach a wide audience remained on the New York Times bestseller list for several months, became a New York Times Notable Book, and was cited by Bookman Review Syndicate as one of the best books of 1997. Stories about Chang's grandparents' harrowing escape were part of her family legacy and prompted her to embark on this ambitious project, for which she interviewed elderly survivors of the massacre and discovered thousands of rare documents in four different languages. General 1994-2003. . It seemed like a lot of odd behavior started around that time, Kamen says. But soon Iris would write one of the most controversial books of the decade. Iris Chang net worth is $1.6 Million Iris Chang Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family Iris Shun-Ru Chang (March 28, 1968 - November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. (One of the most engaging chapters in Kamens book concerns Changs unlikelybut successfulbid to become a homecoming princess.) "They had a big fight," he said. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. 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. "There is an aspect of paranoia in the majority of suicides," Baker said. "She got what she wanted and got out," he said. She knew where to find the glass case of Civil War era pistol replicas, classified as "relics." ", Christopher was born Aug. 31 that year. 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 . "Days before I left for Louisville I had a deep foreboding about my safety. Scope and Contents note One compact sound cassette. She attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and graduated in 1985. 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. But today Christopher is healthy. The couple have lived in California since their marriage. Soon she exceeded the dreams of every student in the program by getting a book contract from a major publisher while still in school. "She didn't like the idea that she was taking medicine," her father said. 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. You have a young kid. The tragedy of Iris Chang Chang, a San Jose resident, took her own life in Los Gatos at age 36. Iris Chang received several other awards, including the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award. Just do it!" "I thought it would be inspirational. Born in China, educated at M.I.T. Pearl Harbor was still smoldering when Japanese planes bombed the Philippines' Bataan Peninsula, where Martel was stationed with a National Guard tank battalion. ", Barbara Culliton, now editor in chief of Genome News Network, was then director of the Johns Hopkins science writing program. John Rylands Research Institute and Library. 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. She wore herself out." That night, she had dinner with her husband of 13 years, Brett Douglas. 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