Quotes by Iris Chang

About Iris Chang:

Iris Shun-Ru Chang is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. She committed suicide on November 9, 2004. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.

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There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.

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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.

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If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

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For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.

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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.

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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

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There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?

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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights la...

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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.

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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

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When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.

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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

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There are now hundreds of thousands of new engineers that are being trained in China. If people start finding themselves losing their jobs, not to the Chinese here but because China has become such a dominant force - then there could very well be a b...

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It's a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.

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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.

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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.

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Author Bio

  • NameIris Chang
  • DescriptionAmerican historian
  • BornMarch 28, 1968
  • DiedNovember 9, 2004
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian; Journalist; Author