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

After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.

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.

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.

Men all across China are going to have trouble finding wives in just a few years.

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