Iris Chang Quotations

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.

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.

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

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.

I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D.

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.

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.

Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.

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.

There isn't much discussion of ruling class in America even in Boston, probably one of the most class-conscious cities in the country?