Iris Shun Ru Chang Quotes

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

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Writer, Duty

• 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

• 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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  Tags in Special

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Alien, Condemned

• 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.

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  Tags in People, Mind, Died

• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Probably, Asian

• 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

• 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 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

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  Tags in People, Engineers, Finding

• The worst… was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Failed, Women

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced s*xual 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.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Comfort, Experiments, Forced

• 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.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Foundations, Difficulty, Against, Struggles

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Usually, Exploited, Economic

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

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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  Tags in Media, Forces

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Quickly, Evolved

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

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Europe, Opposed

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Information, Discover

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wonderful, Credit, Population

• 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 Shun Ru Chang

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Special, Interest, Greatest

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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