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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
#Difficult
#Find
#Information
#Look
#Work
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 Chang
#Born
#Country
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#Law
#Mind
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
#Country
#Interest
#Out
#Special
#Tension
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
#America
#Class
#Country
#Discussion
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
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#Time
#Well
#Young
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
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#Injustice
#People
#Reason
#See
I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. - Iris Chang
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#Maybe
#Work
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces. - Iris Chang
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#Media
#Often
#See
Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. - Iris Chang
#Circumstances
#Evil
#People
#Potential
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. - Iris Chang
#Comfort
#Coming
#Medical
#Us
#Women
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
#Control
#Country
#Government
#Spirit
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
#Finding
#Losing
#New
#People
#Start
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. - Iris Chang
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#Great
#Political
#Pose
#Ugly
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. - Iris Chang
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#First
#Please
#Your
#Yourself
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
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#Crisis
#Economic
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#Hard
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