Iris Shun Ru Chang Quotes

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Engineers, Finding

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Discussion, Conscious

• 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.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Family

  Tags in Professional, Adopt

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Spirit, Control, Government

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probably, Asian

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Mind, Died

• 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.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Special

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Alien, Condemned

• 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.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expansion, Extremely, Decide

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

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writer, Duty

Iris Shun Ru Chang (30)

Birth:	28th March, 1968
Death:	9th November, 2004
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Iris Shun-Ru Chang was an American historian and journalist. She 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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