On November 9, 2004, Iris Chang, the prominent Chinese American author and journalist from California, ended her successful career by shooting herself. Her suicide caused a great deal of shock and sadness, as the news spread in the Chinese community: nothing like this had ever happened before.
This is not just a matter of a single tragedy.
It is a problem we must understand solve.*
*some medical specialists point out that because of the genetic, psychological and physiological differ ences between the sexes, the incidence of depression in women is higher than in man. Statistically, about one out of every eight women will be affected by depression at some point on hteir lives.