Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. Iris Chang More Quotes by Iris Chang More Quotes From Iris Chang Its 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 Chang couple white baby 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 ugly political acceptance Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien. Iris Chang aliens 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 stories book I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life. Iris Chang writing may thinking I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities. Iris Chang cities journey book 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 Chang women family country way 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 young class time country 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 racial tension special country 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 Chang something you hard work Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe. Iris Chang new now immigrants country 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 new start losing people I received an honorary doctorate for my work. Maybe one of these works is considered the equivalent of a Ph.D. Iris Chang doctorate maybe honorary work