the feminist chinese women during the turn of the century and i wanted to write about my japanese culter't have the story or the culture unfortunately because i was born in san francisco, half chinese and half japanese but raised in the chinese culture. when it was time to write the second book and i knew i wanted to explore my japanese side it was going to be difficult in the way that i didn't know the culture. right away i had to learn a lot. it was something that was not engrained in me besides the story. i sat down and thought about the story my mother told me about her brother being ill. he at one point went from hong kong to japan to recuperate. he was the one that wanted to be an artist and wanted to paint. i thought about that because it must have been hard growing up in hong kong to be far away from everything and have a dream and get sick at this point. i thought u is there a story here? that's the way it begins for writers. people think things jump out and we have it in our head. it's the opposite we have nothing in our head. we turn on the machine and praying for something to

culter. guilty until proven innocent. >> he might be taking note from sarah palin and others. you have ginny sanford, the wife of mark sanford. she said in part if the media spent more time airing details on the thoughtful proposals put forth instead of highlighting the best debate quips or newest allegations, we might have an interesting race for choices. with that said, should we talk more about the allegations that herman cain's campaign took tens of thousands of dollars violating election laws. are we missing something by getting caught up in sexual harassment or equally important? >> when it doubt, doubt the media especially in a conservative race for president. the media is always a good target for republicans. it's a tried and true playbook and i'm surprised it took him so long to go there. >> he went there the first day. >> that's true too. to go there in an organize and concerted way, should we talk about other aspects of candidacy? sure. it would be ludicrous to suggest that the media has not talked about his policies and the 9-9-9 plan himself catapulted him to the