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	Iris Chang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Iris Chang's visibility as a public figure increased with her final work The Chinese in America, where she argued that Chinese Americans were treated as outsiders.
		Chang suffered a nervous breakdown in July 2004, which her family and doctors attribute in part to constant sleep deprivation.
		Chang was also reportedly deeply disturbed by much of the subject matter of her research.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iris_Chang (2112 words)

	Chang
		Iris Chang, a journalist whose best-selling book, "The Rape of Nanking," a chronicle of the atrocities committed in that city by occupying Japanese forces, helped break a six-decade-long international silence on the subject, committed suicide on Tuesday [Nov. 9, 2004] near Los Gatos, Calif. She was 36 and lived in San Jose.
		Chang was found in her car on a rural road south of Los Gatos, dead from an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound, the local authorities told The San Francisco Chronicle.
		Chang is survived by her parents, Shau-Jin and Ying-Ying, and a brother, Michael, all of San Jose; and by a son, Christopher.
	www.log24.com /log/saved/041112-Chang.html (889 words)

	California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives
		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.
		Iris Chang's many accolades include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award, the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and an honorary doctorate from the College of Wooster.
		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.
	cemaweb.library.ucsb.edu /chang.html (491 words)

	USATODAY.com - Author Iris Chang found dead from self-inflicted gunshot along Calif. highway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Iris Chang, a best-selling author who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese immigrants in the United States, was found dead in her car of a self-inflicted gunshot, authorities said Wednesday.
		Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching her fourth book about U.S. soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her former editor and agent Susan Rabiner.
		Chang continued to suffer from depression after she was released from the hospital.
	www.usatoday.com /life/people/2004-11-10-chang-obit_x.htm (511 words)

	Iris Chang's Achievement and Sad Demise
		Chang lashed out at the report, clarifying that her book could not firmly conclude that he was one, adding that the issue would remain unresolved until Beijing and Washington offered more information.
		Chang's defenders retorted that the issue of justice denied was all too clear, and they pointed to the growing number of non-Chinese supporters, such as those in Korea, the Philippines, elsewhere in Southeast Asia and globally.
		It appears that Chang - determined to be the voice of the forgotten - had started to gather material for a book on U.S. soldiers tortured by the Japanese in the Philippines during the war when she suffered a nervous breakdown in Kentucky five months ago and entered a hospital.
	hnn.us /articles/8777.html (1218 words)

	Amazon.ca: Chinese In America: Books: Iris Chang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Chang is the author of the best-selling Rape of Nanking (1997), a very disturbing but well-prepared and necessary account of the sacking of that important Chinese city by the Japanese army in the late 1930s.
		Chang's sense of hostility towards the non-Chinese Americans (meaning white) is quite apparent, and her emphasis is always on the prejudice and suppression of the Chinese American.
		Chang also explores the current triple-bind that is the American-born Chinese or the "ABC" experience: to excel, to become white, and to embrace their ethnic heritage, in all this time dealing with a dominant white majority that shifts the signifier that is the Chinese American.
	www.amazon.ca /Chinese-America-Iris-Chang/dp/0142004170 (2082 words)

	San Francisco magazine
		Chang was discovered last November in her car on an isolated dirt road outside Los Gatos, dead from a single gunshot wound.
		Chang had been clinically depressed for months, including a brief hospitalization in August while she was in Kentucky, conducting interviews for her next project.
		In the note Chang meticulously wrote and edited and left beside her computer, she said she wished to be remembered "as the woman she was before her illness, engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing, and her family," her husband says.
	www.sanfranciscomagazine.com /home/view_story/242 (3716 words)

	Remembering Iris Chang
		Iris Chang was also known for closely identifying with the sufferings of the people she wrote about.
		Chang had been hospitalized for clinical depression, which may have been aggravated by the painful subjects she explored in her writing.
		Susan Rabiner was the literary agent for writer Iris Chang, who died on November 9th at the age of 36.
	www.voanews.com /english/AmericanLife/2004-11-18-voa76.cfm (1055 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Iris Chang
		Chang's heroine was Minnie Vautrin, a woman Chang called "the American Anne Frank," who helped save tens of thousands of Chinese lives and kept a daily diary in Nanking.
		Chang did not just see the Japanese army in China as evil, but recognized that evil is possible for all human beings.
		Services for Iris Chang will be held Thursday at the Spangler Mortuary in Los Altos, 58:30pm, and a memorial led by Ignatius Ding of the Global Alliance for Preserving the History of World War II in Asia will be held Friday at 10am at the Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Los Altos.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/11.17.04/chang-0447.html (740 words)

	Book Review: The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
		Chang writes, "Students were forced to hold heavy objects, sit on their knees, stand barefoot in the snow, or run around the playground until they collapsed from exhaustion" (p.31).
		Chang writes, "By the late 15th and early 16th centuries Japan was ruled by the Tokugawa family, who sealed off the island nation from foreign influence" (p.21).
		Chang attempts here to mask the very heavy extent to which her own account relies on Bergamini's and to give the impression that she has herself examined manuscripts of testimony given at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
	www.edogawa-u.ac.jp /~tmkelly/research_review_nanking.html (5822 words)

	The Rape of Nanking by Iris Chang
		Iris Chang, a Chinese-American free-lance writer of considerable descriptive power, whose parents chilled her blood with accounts of the Nanking massacre when she was a child, has written the first comprehensive book on what happened in December 1937.
		Chang's most recent text The Chinese in America, published last year, is a history of Chinese immigrants and their descendents in the United States.
		Iris Chang learned about the sufferings of the Chinese people from her parents.
	www.njwriters.com /chang.html (750 words)

	A+E Interactive: Iris Chang Found in Los Gatos, Dead
		Iris Chang -- journalist and author of "The Rape of Nanking" -- was found dead in her car in Los Gatos Tuesday, an apparent suicide.
		Chang was sort of a hero for me. I looked up to her for bringing new light to a piece of history that has largely been ignored.
		Chang was also the first big story I wrote as a journalist, front page centerpiece in The Daily Californian.
	blogs.mercurynews.com /aei/2004/11/iris_chang_foun.html (284 words)

	ms.musings: Iris Chang
		Chang told an interviewer last year that it was important for her to write '"about issues that have universal significance.'" She continued:
		Posted by Zed on December 9, 2004 04:24 PM yeah, Iris Chang is the nation's icon on justice and civil acivitist.
		Iris Chang literally put the names and faces behind the suffering and destruction the Japanese caused during World War Two with her second book, "The Rape of Nanking," a period that is still glossed over in many history books.
	www.msmusings.net /archives/2004/12/iris_chang.html (801 words)

	Iris Chang's suicide stunned those she tried so hard to help -- the survivors of Japan's 'Rape of Nanking'
		Chang, who lived in San Jose, shot herself to death Nov. 9 in her car, parked along a rural road south of Los Gatos.
		Chang, she says, worked incessantly in Nanjing interviewing survivors, immersed in graphic pictures and documents, all the while agonizing over why the story was not widely known outside China.
		Chang's close friend Ignatius Ding, a retired Cupertino engineer who sponsored some of her early research, said the parallels between Vautrin and Chang are strong.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/20/DDGN29TV0G1.DTL (1354 words)

	Iris Chang's Biography - The Official Iris Chang Website
		Iris Chang - IrisChang.net iris chang.org rap eof nanking.net rape of nanking.org chinese in america.org chinese-america.com qian xue sen.com tsien hsue shen.com thread of the silkworm.com
		Chang's first book, "Thread of the Silkworm," a critically acclaimed and engrossing study of how Cold-war hysteria influenced American foreign policy, tells the ironic story of Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen.
		Iris Chang's many accolades include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation's Program on Peace and International Cooperation Award, the Woman of the Year award from the Organization of Chinese Americans, and two honorary doctorates (the College of Wooster in Ohio, and California State University at Hayward).
	www.irischang.net /biography.cfm (534 words)

	identity theory \| interviews \| iris chang
		Iris Chang has published The Thread of the Silkworm, the much celebrated The Rape of Nanking and most recently The Chinese in America: A Narrative History.
		In compelling detail Iris Chang provides a clear picture of the lives of immigrant Chinese and she unearths fascinating and disturbing stories about their experiences and some of the root causes for the sometimes torturous adjustment they suffered in this land of plenty.
		Chang and Eng Bunker, those Siamese twins—if you were going to judge people on their appearance alone, I couldn't think of any two people who were more freakish than that.
	www.identitytheory.com /interviews/birnbaum109.html (5241 words)

	For The Record: FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Chang’s death may have resulted from mind control, administered to neutralize her as a threat to the clandestine economic and national security relationships that have governed US/Japanese affairs in the postwar period.
		Chang and a friend in which Iris indicated that her fears were rooted in reality, and not “in her head;” Ms.
		Chang was investigating the story of the Death Marchers, she made the acquaintance of a colonel, who elicited fear in this otherwise dauntless individual.
	ftrsummary.blogspot.com /2005/05/ftr-509-death-of-iris-chang.html (8340 words)

	‘Rape of Nanking’ Author Denounces Cox Report
		Chang, who was speaking on the “Right to Historical Accuracy,” said she was especially furious when she saw that the report cited her research as proof that Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen was a Chinese spy.
		According to Chang, the committee’s press secretary responded that if the sources of the allegations could not be found in the footnote section, then it is safe to assume that the Select Committee had used classified information to make those allegations.
		Chang was told that she would simply have to take the committee’s word that the report was factually correct.
	www.asianweek.com /060399/news_irishchang.html (773 words)

	Amazon.com: The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II: Books: Iris Chang (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Chang tells of the Sino-Japanese War atrocities perpetrated by the invading Japanese army in Nanking in December 1937, in which roughly 350,000 soldiers and civilians were slaughtered in an eight-week period, many of them having been raped and/or tortured first.
		First, Iris Chang is a Chinese American who was born and educated in the U.S. This book was written and published only in U.S. So it's ridiculous to call her as "a victim of forced censorship and a pawn of the Communist propaganda machine".
		Sadly, Iris Chang omitted such details from her novel, quite obviously a victim of forced censorship and a pawn of the Communist propaganda machine.
	www.amazon.com /Rape-Nanking-Forgotten-Holocaust-World/dp/0140277447 (3231 words)

	Iris Chang Historian, Author World Change Agent 1968-2004
		Iris Chang, a second generation Chinese American, was born in Princeton, New Jersey and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
		Iris Chang was driven to share her passion for human rights, World War II history, Cold War history, the Asian American experience, Sino-American relations, and the future of American civil liberties.
		Iris Chang suffered a breakdown and was hospitalized during a recent trip researching her fourth book about U.S. soldiers who fought the Japanese in the Philippines during World War II, according to her former editor and agent Susan Rabiner.
	www.asianconnections.com /a/?article_id=513 (1244 words)

	Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind: More on Iris Chang
		Chang clearly seems to have been, I have no use for romanticizing what she did.
		You either believe that she had no control over what happened to her, and thus her death was no different than a death from cancer or any other disease, or you believe that she was "driven to it" by her passion or her work or other "artistic" reasons, in which case, she betrayed her family.
		I just read about Chang's death today and it was truly a shocker to me. As a person who was born and raised in Hong Kong, I was already quite familiar with the history about the Nanking massacre during WW2 before Chang's book came out.
	www.sarahweinman.com /confessions/2004/11/more_on_iris_ch.html (1701 words)

	'Rape of Nanking' Author Iris Chang Dies (washingtonpost.com)
		Chang had heard about the Nanking massacres from her parents and grandparents, who had fled the city as Japanese troops arrived.
		Chang also published "Thread of the Silkworm" (1995), a story of a brilliant Chinese-born physicist forced to leave the American space program by McCarthyism, and "The Chinese in America" (2003), a 150-year history of immigration.
		Chang was born in Princeton, N.J., and grew up in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., where her parents were college professors, and she received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois in 1989.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A44139-2004Nov11.html (991 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Arts \| Author Chang found dead aged 36
		Chang was renowned for her books about the Japanese occupation of China as well as the history of Chinese immigrants in the US.
		She was best-known for her 1997 international best-seller The Rape Of Nanking, which described the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during their occupation of the former Chinese capital in the 1930s.
		Chang started her career as a journalist, but left to pursue writing and published her first book at the age 25.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/arts/4002289.stm (268 words)

	RFA: Author Iris Chang Dies at 36
		WASHINGTON: Best-selling Chinese-American author Iris Chang was found dead in her car from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
		Chang, who chronicled the Japanese occupation of China and the history of Chinese U.S. immigrants, achieved celebrity with her first book, The Rape of Nanking.
		Chang continued to suffer from depression after being released from the hospital, she said.
	www.rfa.org /english/news/arts/2004/11/12/us_chang (226 words)

	How "Iris Chang" became a verb - Salon
		In college, I would have liked Iris Chang more if she hadn't always been one step ahead of me, frustrating all my major life ambitions.
		Not wasting a minute, she called the New York Times' main desk, said she wanted to be a stringer, and soon after published a story in the front section.
		He was still bristling about a past encounter with her, for supposedly "taking over" the publication on the first day she went to a meeting.
	dir.salon.com /story/mwt/feature/2004/11/30/iris_chang/index.html (732 words)

	Talk:Iris Chang - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chang was only trying her best to preserve and uncover the past that has been passed on to her from her parents.
		Chang can certainly be taken to task for being a bad historian, if she was (I've no idea- I haven't read the book, and I'm not a historian whatever your definition).
		Chang's defenders point out that many of the sources cited in criticising the work made errors larger than Chang was accused of - for example one common source was Hata Ikuhito and his work "The Nanking Atrocities: Fact and Fable" published in 1998, which contained an implausibly low estimate of fatalities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Talk:Iris_Chang (8910 words)

	CBC.ca Arts - Bestselling history writer Iris Chang found dead
		U.S. author Iris Chang, the woman behind several bestselling books detailing Chinese and Chinese-American history, was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot, police announced Wednesday.
		Police found Chang in her car, parked near a highway south of the town of Los Gatos, Calif., after receiving a tip from a passing motorist.
		Chang is survived by her husband and their two-year-old son.
	www.cbc.ca /arts/story/2004/11/11/changobit041111.html (1101 words)

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