It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

"Statement of Iris Chang" stated:

I promise to get up and get out of the house every morning. ISBN 978-0-465-00678-6. If it is a politically motivated work of partisan propaganda it is successful to a certain degree.

Iris Shun-Ru Chang (simplified Chinese: 张纯如; traditional Chinese: 張純如; pinyin: Zhāng Chúnrú; March 28 1968 – November 9 2004) was an American historian and journalist. She committed suicide on November 9 2004. She is best known for her best-selling 1997 account of the Nanking Massacre The Rape of Nanking.