5 Quotes & Sayings By Iris Chang

Iris Chang was an American author of several books about the Chinese diaspora, most notably her 1993 nonfiction book The Rape of Nanking, which was on the New York Times Best Seller list for 55 weeks. Her book The Chinese in America won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.

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Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems to be exceedingly thin — one that can be easily stripped away, especially by the stresses of war. Iris Chang
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances. Iris Chang
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality. Iris Chang
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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