Iris Chang
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"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 (book)/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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I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

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

The Japanese even forced fathers to rape their own daughters or sons their mothers, brothers their sisters in order to further degrade the victims.

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.

These episodes of racism occur in cycles.

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

The Committee of 100 commissioned a survey in which they found that Asian-American candidates are the most unpopular of all the races. They found that people were less likely to vote for Chinese-Americans than other minorities.

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.

Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.