Sorry to see we have lost her at such a young age, what a tragedy.
Condolences & Sympathy to the Chang family and all her friends.
Sorry to see we have lost her at such a young age, what a tragedy.
Condolences & Sympathy to the Chang family and all her friends.
What a shame. The Rape of Nanking is a fine work of history.
OMG, why? R.I.P., Iris Chang.
This is very sad, and very suspicious, too. I don't know why anyone would want to murder Ms. Chang, but the odds of a woman killing herself in this way are infinitesimal.
I suppose that the "other evidence" cited by authorities must be compelling, but it would be quite remarkable if Ms. Chang chose to shoot herself at all, much less in the head. Women just don't do that, hardly ever, at all.
God rest her soul.
Jeez, how sad.
If she did kill herself, that is a tragedy also, because she was the historian that brought the Nanking atrocity to modern public attention.
Born in Princeton, N.J., in 1968 and raised in Champaign-Urbana, Ill., Chang earned a bachelor's degree in journalism at the University of Illinois and a master's in science writing at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Chang worked briefly as a reporter for The Associated Press and the Chicago Tribune before leaving daily journalism to pursue her own writing. At age 25, she published her first book, "Thread of the Silkworm," which tells the story of Tsien Hsue-shen, the Chinese-born physicist who pioneered China's missile program after being driven from the United States during the Cold War.
In 1997, Chang published the international bestseller "The Rape of Nanking," which described the rape, torture and killing of hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians by Japanese soldiers in the former Chinese capital during the late 1930s. "The Chinese in America," published last year, is a history of Chinese immigrants and their descendants in the United States.
The late historian Stephen Ambrose described Chang as "maybe the best young historian we've got, because she understands that to communicate history, you've got to tell the story in an interesting way."
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. In a note to her family, she asked to be remembered as the person she was before she became ill -- "engaged with life, committed to her causes, her writing and her family," Rabiner said.
Very sad, to lose such a beautiful and gifted person.
Is there an epidemic of suicides? I seem to read three or four suicide threads a day here lately.
God help all those who are so full of despair that they cannot wait upon His mercy in this life.
Too many demons.
I know the book. Didn't know she was this young.
Very interesting young lady.
This is horrible news.
Sad. Condolences to family and friends.
She was excorated and reviled by the Japanese community, and by many in academia for her exposure of these atrocities; they did not want to ever lose the image of the Japanese as "innocent" victims of atomic attack at the hands of Evil Americans. The constant harrassment from those who hated her "politically incorrect" account of history must have been draining - just read some of the reviews online, and you will understand what may have contributed to her untimely death.
The Left is an equal-opportunity hater.
She was excorated and reviled by the Japanese community, and by many in academia for her exposure of these atrocities; they did not want to ever lose the image of the Japanese as "innocent" victims of atomic attack at the hands of Evil Americans. The constant harrassment from those who hated her "politically incorrect" account of history must have been draining - just read some of the reviews online, and you will understand what may have contributed to her untimely death.
The Left is an equal-opportunity hater.
She was excorated and reviled by the Japanese community, and by many in academia for her exposure of these atrocities; they did not want to ever lose the image of the Japanese as "innocent" victims of atomic attack at the hands of Evil Americans. The constant harrassment from those who hated her "politically incorrect" account of history must have been draining - just read some of the reviews online, and you will understand what may have contributed to her untimely death.
The Left is an equal-opportunity hater.
RIP
What a sad thing... my prayers go out for her soul and the comfort of her friends and family..
I too am sorry. It was a compelling book. Such a waste of young life.