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 whirlwi….

I have to finish this book tour of almost 30 cities..

Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else..

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 mainstr….

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

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

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 th….

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

It is very difficult to hang onto the relics of history..

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 ps….

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 ug….

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 enoug….

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 stru….

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 anot….

They probably do have an Asian Barbie..

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 s….

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed..

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien..

As the Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel warned years ago, to forget a holocaust is to kill twice..

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space..

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, bu….