1. Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American journalist, historian, and political activist.
12 Facts About Iris Chang
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Iris Chang was the daughter of university professors Ying-Ying and Shau-Jin Chang, who moved from China to Taiwan and later to the United States, and grew up hearing stories about the Nanjing massacre, from which her maternal grandparents escaped.
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Iris Chang attended the University Laboratory High School of Urbana, Illinois, and graduated in 1985.
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Iris Chang 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.
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Iris Chang began her career as an author and lectured and wrote magazine articles.
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In 1991, Iris Chang married Bretton Lee Douglas, a design engineer for Cisco Systems, whom she had met in college, and had one son, Christopher, who was two years old at the time of her suicide.
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Iris Chang lived in San Jose, California, in the final years of her life.
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Iris Chang wrote three books documenting the experiences of Chinese and Chinese Americans in history.
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Iris Chang's third book, The Chinese in America: A Narrative History, is a history of Chinese Americans, that argues their treatment as perpetual outsiders by American society.
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Iris Chang Park in San Jose, that opened on November 9,2019, is a municipal park dedicated to Chang.
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Iris Chang was reportedly deeply disturbed by much of the subject matter of her research.
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On November 9,2019, Iris Chang Park was inaugurated in the Rincon district of San Jose.