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- Rose Pak was born in 1948 in Hunan, China. She died on September 18, 2016 in San Francisco, California, USA.
- She, her mother and sisters fled Communist China to British Hong Kong in the early 1950s. She attended Catholic boarding schools there and in Portuguese Macao. She came to California on a scholarship to study at the San Francisco College for Women.
- She received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University in New York City, and returned to California to work at the San Francisco Chronicle, where she was the only Cantonese-speaking reporter at the time.
- She was a civic leader who was influential in making the city's Asian American population and Chinatown into a political force.
- Power is an illusion. If people think you have it, you have it.
- You can't be so afraid of offending anyone that you don't do anything. If people take positions I don't agree with, am I just going to roll over and pretend to be dead? No, I'm going to fight.
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