Iris Chang
Iris Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Changwas an American journalist. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre, The Rape of Nanking. Chang is the subject of the 2007 biography, Finding Iris Chang, and the 2007 documentary film Iris Chang: The Rape of Nanking...
NationalityChinese
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth28 March 1968
CountryChina
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I started off majoring in math and computer science and then majored in journalism because I knew I wanted to become a writer one day.
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Often when times are good and when the US is on good diplomatic terms with China, the Chinese are viewed as a bridge between the two countries.
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Often what is deeply offensive to Chinese-Americans that they are really well-represented in medicine, and yet on all these doctors' shows you hardly see any Chinese-American faces.
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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat
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This by no means the last word on the Chinese in America. This is my personal interpretation of the 150-year epic history of Chinese in this country.
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California, where the anti-Chinese racism was greatest, became a very crucial swing state during presidential elections, and therefore both parties had to court California.
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General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.
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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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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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Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.
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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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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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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.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.