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Some quirk in human nature allows even the most unspeakable acts of evil to become banal within minutes, provided that they occur far enough away to pose no personal threat

The Chinese encountered great prejudice in places like Southeast Asia where they assumed these middle-man minority roles, as Armenians and Jews have done in other countries.

I started off majoring in math and computer science and then majored in journalism because I knew I wanted to become a writer one day.

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.

I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.

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.

The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.

You also see backlashes at different times, such as the Korean War, when Chinese forces clashed with American forces.

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 count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.

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.

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.

General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books.

I certainly didn't have a three-book plan or a 10-year plan when I worked on the first book.

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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