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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
Iris Chang / Historian
Asian
Barbie
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang / Historian
Alien
Commonly
Condemned
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I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities.
Iris Chang / Historian
Journey
Book
Cities
Book Tour
Finish
Tour
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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
Iris Chang / Historian
Difficult
Relics
Hang
Relic
Onto
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
Iris Chang / Historian
Book
Immortality
Way
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
Iris Chang / Historian
Driven
Economic
Media
Economic Forces
Forces
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I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills.
Iris Chang / Historian
Gathering
Historical
Research
Skills
Certainly
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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Iris Chang / Historian
Space
People
Solitude
Talking
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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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Asia
Immigrants
Opposed
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As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
Iris Chang / Historian
Forget
Holocaust
Years
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
Iris Chang / Historian
Bengali
Rebellion
Soldier
Uprising
Worst
Failed
Pakistani
Soldiers
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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
Iris Chang / Historian
Duty
Firsts
Please
Writing
Anyone Else
Towards
Yourself Duty Your
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Iris Chang / Historian
Disappear
Spoken Word
Wind
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I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.
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Honorary
Considered
Works
Doctorate
Equivalent
Received
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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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Certain
Circumstances
Dangerous
Evil
People
Social
Unleashed
Would Be
All People
Almost
Almost All
Potential
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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?
Iris Chang / Historian
Boston
Cities
Class
Country
Discussion
Ruling
Ruling Class
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When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.
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Believe
Thinking
Years
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
Iris Chang / Historian
Died
Numbers
Mind Keep People
Deaths
Manner
Victims
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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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Acceptance
Conditions
Political
Turns
Ugly
Pose
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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.
Iris Chang / Historian
Crisis
Economic Crisis
Hard Times
Racism
Racist
Slides
Exploited
Underneath
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When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.
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Compression
Expansion
Broad
Extremely
Throw
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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.
Iris Chang / Historian
Being Honest
Daily Life
Honest
May
Novel
Oneself
Thinking
Whirlwind
Writing
Attempt
Daily
Pull
Requires
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Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
Iris Chang / Historian
Distinctions
Quickly
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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.
Iris Chang / Historian
California
Chinese
Groups
Special Interest Groups
Tension
Racial
Shut
Special Interest
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
Iris Chang / Historian
Government
Communist
Country
Engaged
Engagement
Pure
Seems
Government Control Way
Capitalistic
Nation
Enterprises
Government Country Control
Government Control
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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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Chinese
Colony
San Francisco
Special
Ceremonies
Francisco
Mayor
San
Welcomed
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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Medical
Book
Comfort
Experiments
Stories
Changing
Forced
Sexual
Psyche
Unit
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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.
Iris Chang / Historian
Bothered
Civil Liberties
Fiction
Injustice
Liberty
Non Fiction
People
Writing
Future People Will
Acts
Civil
Liberties
Vein
Whenever
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Its 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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Baby
Couple
White
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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.
Iris Chang / Historian
Ads
Chinese
Chinese Culture
Mainstream
Population
Babies
Couples
Eager
Filtered
Segment
Wonderful Thing
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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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China
Adopt
Child-Bearing
Epidemic
Favor
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After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Iris Chang / Historian
Book
Historical
Hopkins
Interesting
Journalist
Journalistic
Program
Writing
Writing Style
Afterwards
Asked
Emphasized
Neither
Nor
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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 law.
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China
Civil Rights
Country
Difficulty
Exclusion
Rights
Struggle
Usa
Civil
Foundations
Laid
Struggles
Visited
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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 backlash.
Iris Chang / Historian
Jobs
Backlash
China
Dominant
Engineers
Force
Losing
Start People New
Dominant Force
Finding
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Trained
Thousands
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It's much more difficult to work on a broad subject than on a specific one, because even if it's hard to find the information, if you look hard enough for something specific you will find it, and you will discover things that you wouldn't have thought of before.
Iris Chang / Historian
Enough
Information
Looks
Work Enough Look
Broad
Discover
Specific
Subject
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Please believe in THE POWER OF ONE. One person can make an enormous difference in the world. One person - actually, one idea - can start a war, or end one, or subvert an entire power structure. One discovery can cure a disease or spawn new technology to benefit or annihilate the human race. You as ONE individual can change millions of lives. Think big. Do not limit your vision and do not ever compromise your dreams or ideals.
Iris Chang / Historian
Dream
War
Believe
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