I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one and the same. For my entire life I longed for love. I knew it was not right for me - as a girl and later as a woman - to want or expect it, but I did, and this unjustified desire has been at the root of every problem I have experienced in my life.

She has written for and led in many cultural events emphasizing the importance of Los Angeles and Chinatown. Dragon Bones. Dreams of Joy.

See has completed a sequel titled Dreams of Joy which was released May 31 2011. Her Chinese-American family has had a great impact on her life and work. Shanghai Girls (2009) chronicles the lives of two sisters who come to Los Angeles in arranged marriages and face among other things the pressures put on Chinese-Americans during the anti-Communist mania of the 1950s.