By M&C News Nov 11, 2007, 15:43 GMT
In this recent book by Paula Kamen called, Finding Iris Chang: Friendship, Ambition, and the Loss of an Extraordinary Mind—readers will know what went into the suicide of Iris Chang, who shockingly killed herself in 2004 at the age of 36.
The suicide also did not go without its deal of conspiracy theories, the AP states.
According to the AP article, “Few people outside Chang's immediate family knew that she was becoming increasingly paranoid and was institutionalized for a short time.”
Chang is known for her book The Rape of Nanking. The author of the book is one who had been a friend for many years but according to the AP review, “this book has problems: Almost from page one, Kamen acknowledges a long-standing rivalry with Chang and repeatedly inserts uninteresting details about her own life into the book, seemingly in an effort to continue competing with her dead friend.”
Publishers Weekly has said, “Kamen also probes the stigma of mental illness in the Asian-American community, Chang's sense of guilt over her son's autism, her veneer of perfection and the deterioration of her mental state. Despite its flaws, this could find a sizable audience among those Chinese-Americans who lionized Chang.”
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