I have certainly amassed many historical research gathering skills..

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien..

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

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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

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

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….

They probably do have an Asian Barbie..

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….

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….