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Kathy Change (1950 - October 22, 1996) was an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996. Born Kathleen Chang, she changed her performance name to Kathy Change to indicate her commitment to political and social change. She was the daughter of Chinese academics who emigrated to America in the wake of the Chinese Revolution. Change was married for five years to writer Frank Chin. ==Life== Change was born as Kathleen Chang in Ohio in 1950. Her father, Sheldon Chang, was an engineer and a professor at the State University at Stony Brook, Long Island, New York. Her mother Gertrude was a writer. She had one brother. Her parents divorced while she was a teenager. Her mother committed suicide when Kathy was 14 years old.〔"(The Manic and Messianic Life of a Troubled Idealist )", Ian Fisher, The New York Times, published November 27, 1996, accessed March 27, 2011.〕 Change graduated from the Bronx High School of Science in New York City and briefly attended Mills College and the Bronx campus of New York University. Upon her marriage, she moved to California. In 1976, she wrote and illustrated a 24-page children's book, ''The Iron Moonhunter''. The book is about the life of Chinese workers on the Central Pacific railroad in the 19th century.〔"(Amazon.com listing, accessed March 29, 2011 ).〕 In 1981, Change moved to Philadelphia. Around this time, her life was increasingly defined by her political activism with which some casual observers had sharp disagreement. ''The New York Times'' incorrectly noted that she had seen psychiatrists off and on for her adult life, but in reality she was briefly detained and released on several occasions, although friends were unaware if a specific illness had been diagnosed.〔"(The Manic and Messianic Life of a Troubled Idealist )", Ian Fisher, ''The New York Times'', published November 27, 1996, accessed March 27, 2011.〕 For a brief period in the early 1980s, she squatted in an abandoned Philadelphia building with others. In the later years of her life, she added an "e" to her last name, and informally changed her name to Kathy Change. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kathy Change」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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