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Iris Shun-Ru Chang (Traditional Chine: 张纯如; Simplified Chine: 张纯如; Pinyin: Zhtrip hopāng Chúnrú; March 28, 1968 – November 9, 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She was best known for her best lling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004, after a depressive episode resulting from a nervous breakdown.
The daughter of two mainland-born university professors who immigrated from Taiwan, Chang was born in Princeton, New Jery and was raid in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, where she attended University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois and graduated in 1985. She earned a bachelor's degree in Journalism at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1989, a master's degree in Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University, and later worked as a New York Times stringer from Urbana-Champaign, in which capacity she wrote six front-page articles over the cour of one year.[1] After brief stints at the Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune, she began her career as a writer, and also lectured and wrote articles for various magazines.
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She married Bretton Douglas, whom she had met in college, and had one son, Christopher, who was 2 years old at the time of her death. She lived in San Jo, California in the final years of her life.
prince charming Chang wrote three books that document the experiences of Asians and Chine Americans in history.
Her first book, titled Thread of the Silkworm (1995),[2] tells the life story of the Chine professor, Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen during the Red Scare in the 1950s. Although Tsien was one of the founders of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and helped the military of the United States debrief scientists from Nazi Germany for many years, he was suddenly fally accud of being a spy, a member of the Communist Party USA, and placed under hou arrest from 1950 to 1955. Dr. Tsien Hsue-shen left for the People's Republic of China in September of 1955 aboard the merchant ship President Cleveland. Upon his return to China, Tsien developed the Dongfeng missile program, and later the Silkworm missile, which ironically would later be ud against the United States during the Persian Gulf War and the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.
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The Rape of Nanking, Chang's most famous workHer cond book, The Rape of Nanking (1997),[3] 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. It documents atrocities committed against Chine by forces of the Imperial Japane Army during the Second Sino-Japane War, and includes interviews with victims. The book attracted both prai from some quarters for exposing the details of the atrocity, and criticism from others becau of alleged inaccuracies. After publication of the book, she campaigned to persuade the Government of Japan to apologi for its troops' wartime conduct and to pay compensation. The work was the first popular English language work to deal exclusively on the atrocity itlf, and remained on the New York Times Bestller list for months. Bad on this book, a documentary film, Nanking, will be relead in 2007.
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Her third book, The Chine in America (2003),[4] is a history of Chine-Americans which argues that Chine Americans were treated as outsiders. Consistent with the style of her earlier works, the book relies heavily on personal accounts, drawing its strong emo
tional content from each of their stories. She writes: "The America of today would not be the same America without the achievements of its ethnic Chine. Scratch the surface of every American celebrity of Chine heritage and you will find that, no matter how stellar their achievements, no matter how great their contribution to U.S. society, virtually all of them have had their identities questioned at one point or another."
Success as an author propelled Iris Chang into becoming a public figure. The Rape of Nanking placed her in great demand as a speaker and as an interview subject, and, more broadly, as a spokesperson for an entire viewpoint that the Japane government had not done enough to compensate victims of their invasion of China. This became a political issue in the United States shortly after the book was published; Chang was one of the major advocates of a Congressional resolution propod in 1997 to have the Japane government apologize for war crimes, and met with First Lady Hillary Clinton in 1999 to discuss the issue.[5] In one often mentioned incident (as the The Times of London reported it):
she confronted the Japane Ambassador to the United States on television, demanded an apology and expresd her dissatisfaction with his mere acknowledgement "that really unfortunate things happened, acts of violence were committed by members of the Japane military". "It is becau of the types of wording and the vagueness of such expressions that Chine people, I think, are infuriated," was her reaction. [6]
Iris Chang's visibility as a public figure incread with her final work The Chine in America, where she argued that Chine Americans were treated as outsiders.afternoontea
After her death she became the subject of tributes from fellow writers. Mo Hayder dedicated a novel to her. Reporter Richard Rongstad eulogized her as "Iris Chang lit a flame and pasd it to others and we should not allow that flame to be extinguished."
