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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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Iris Chang
Age: 36 †
Born: 1968
Born: March 28
Died: 2004
Died: November 11
Historian
Human Rights Activist
Journalist
Political Activist
Writer
Princeton
New Jersey
I. Chang
Iris Shun-Ru Chang
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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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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.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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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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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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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.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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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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It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history.
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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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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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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.
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As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice.
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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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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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