Talk: The Power of One Can Change the World — Marking the sixteenth anniversary of Iris Chang’s passing and the first year of Iris Chang Park
Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2020 US West Coast: 8 p.m., November 11 Beijing: 12 noon, November 12 Speaker: Dr. Ying-Ying Chang
About the speaker: Dr. Ying-Ying Chang was born during the war in the wartime capital, Chongqing, and later moved with her family to Taiwan. She graduated from National Taiwan University and, in 1967, received her Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard University, where she also met and married the physicist Shau-Jin Chang. Dr. Chang then joined the Department of Microbiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, beginning a career of teaching and research that ran for thirty years. Her papers have appeared in the leading journals of science, including Science, the Journal of Biological Chemistry, the Journal of Bacteriology, and the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. After her retirement, she and her husband settled in San Jose, California.
The late writer Iris Chang — author of The Forgotten Holocaust — was Dr. Chang’s elder daughter. After Iris’s death, Dr. Chang and her husband devoted themselves to the preservation and transmission of the history of Asia in the Second World War, and together founded the Iris Chang Memorial Foundation, in honor of their daughter’s spirit of uncovering the historical record and guarding the truth. In 2011, Dr. Chang completed her memoir The Woman Who Could Not Forget: Iris Chang Before and Beyond the Rape of Nanking.
Programme:
Marking the first year of Iris Chang Park — Address by Assembly Member Kansen Chu The Power of One Can Change the World — Keynote by Dr. Ying-Ying Chang Deep in Memory — Discussion and Reflection
