CA: Author/journalist found dead of gunshot wound in Los Gatos (Iris Chang/The Rape of Nanking)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1276983/posts
Iris Chang Suicide? Not So Fast..Officials Should be More Responsible (race card thrown)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1280402/posts
Noted Author Iris Chang Dies
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1292904/posts
I own her book. I found it remarkable, turning a clinical eye on an episode of WW II that has conveniently been swept under the rug. Contrast it with the item posted yesterday on FR that the Polish government was opening a formal investigation into the Katyn forrest massacre. FWIW, it's possible that her uderlying depresion, which had to have existed for a long while, was "stressed" by the research she did for the book. Wading through all the pics, and the archives, and the reports, it had to increase whatever pain she was feeling. I have no training in mental illness, but I have read that many young mothers who are suicidal will often kill their children before themselves. Sounds like she tried to keep herself away from her infant, fortunately.
If Mr. Harris read Iris Chang's book, The Rape of Nanking, then perhaps he would understand her profound sadness.
Amen. When her book first came out, I thought a great deal about what phenomenal fortitude she had to *write* this book. How many "Asian" Americans in the SF Bay Area would shun her, if not only deride her.. of how many of her ancestral cultural taboos she had taken on to write this book. I was saddened by news of her suicide. I wondered if, perhaps, her book hadn't written her; done her in. May she rest in peace. May her loved ones be comforted.
A touching and thoughful commentary. Thanks for posting it.
One more deserving bttt.