--- title: "1 Deep depression Quotes By Jung Chang" description: "1 Deep depression quotes by Jung Chang. Plus more from Jung Chang and more Deep depression sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/jung-chang-9667_deep-depression_the-party-s-all-around-intrusion-into-pe_2680496.jpg" --- > [“The Party's all-around intrusion into people's lives was the very point of the process known as 'thought reform." Mao wanted not only external discipline, but the total subjection of all thoughts, large or small. Every week a meeting for 'thought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/the-party-s-all-around-intrusion-into-people-s-lives-was-the-very/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/jung-chang-9667_deep-depression_the-party-s-all-around-intrusion-into-pe_2680496.jpg) ## More by Jung Chang > [“So the story of Wild Fox Kang’s attempted coup and murder of Cixi lay in darkness and obscurity for nearly a century, until the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/so-the-story-of-wild-fox-kang-s-attempted-coup-and-murder-of-cixi-lay/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'...My mother supposed it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/my-father-said-he-was-going-to-write-to-the-jinzhou-city-party/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/for-anyone-to-open-their-heart-they-need-the-right-atmosphere-and/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“Meanwhile, Mme Mao and her cohorts were renewing their efforts to prevent the country from working. In industry, their slogan was: "To stop production…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/meanwhile-mme-mao-and-her-cohorts-were-renewing-their-efforts-to/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“I was extremely curious about the alternatives to the kind of life I had been leading, and my friends and I exchanged rumors and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/i-was-extremely-curious-about-the-alternatives-to-the-kind-of-life-i/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“Unlike most founding dictators—Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler—Mao did not inspire a passionate following through his oratory, or ideological appeal. He simply sought willing recruits among…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/unlike-most-founding-dictators-lenin-mussolini-hitler-mao-did-not/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“MAO TSE-TUNG, who for decades held absolute power over the lives of one-quarter of the world’s population, was responsible for well over 70 million…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/mao-tse-tung-who-for-decades-held-absolute-power-over-the-lives-of/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“mosquito-netted open windows was an enormous privilege. ‘You must not think you are superior to them,’ he would say. ‘You are just”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/mosquito-netted-open-windows-was-an-enormous-privilege-you-must-not/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself:…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/when-he-asked-my-grandmother-if-she-would-mind-being-poor-she-said/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“Poverty drove their parents to have them castrated as young children, hoping they would earn a better living at court. Usually the father would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/poverty-drove-their-parents-to-have-them-castrated-as-young-children/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/i-was-not-allowed-to-take-notes-but-my-friend-and-i-memorised-those/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/if-children-were-brought-up-to-become-non-conformists-it-would-only/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“The Manchus drank tea with a lot of milk. In her case, the milk came from the breasts of a nurse. Cixi had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/the-manchus-drank-tea-with-a-lot-of-milk-in-her-case-the-milk-came/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“According to tradition, my great-grandfather married early, at 14, with a woman six years older. It was considered to be one of the duties…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/according-to-tradition-my-great-grandfather-married-early-at-14-with/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) > [“When I heard about the ease with which the Four had been removed, I felt a wave of sadness. How could such a small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jung-chang/when-i-heard-about-the-ease-with-which-the-four-had-been-removed-i/) [Jung Chang](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jung-chang/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/deep-depression/jung-chang/#itemlist", "name": "1 Deep depression Quotes By Jung Chang", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The Party's all-around intrusion into people's lives was the very point of the process known as 'thought reform.\" Mao wanted not only external discipline, but the total subjection of all thoughts, large or small. Every week a meeting for 'thought examination' was held for those 'in the revolution.\" Everyone had both to criticize themselves for incorrect thoughts and be subjected to the criticism of others.The meetings tended to be dominated by self-righteous and petty-minded people, who used them to vent their envy and frustration; people of peasant origin used them to attack those from 'bourgeois' backgrounds. The idea was that people should be reformed to be more like peasants, because the Communist revolution was in essence a peasant revolution. This process appealed to the guilt feelings of the educated; they had been living better than the peasants, and self-criticism tapped into this.Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. The pettiness which dominated them was justified on the grounds that prying into personal details was a way of ensuring thorough soul-cleansing. In fact, pettiness was a fundamental characteristic of a revolution in which intrusiveness and ignorance were celebrated, and envy was incorporated into the system of control. My mother's cell grilled her week after week, month after month, forcing her to produce endless self-criticisms.She had to consent to this agonizing process. Life for a revolutionary was meaningless if they were rejected by the Party. It was like excommunication for a Catholic. Besides, it was standard procedure. My father had gone through it and had accepted it as part of 'joining the revolution.\" In fact, he was still going through it. The Party had never hidden the fact that it was a painful process. He told my mother her anguish was normal.At the end of all this, my mother's two comrades voted against full Party membership for her. She fell into a deep depression. She had been devoted to the revolution, and could not accept the idea that it did not want her; it was particularly galling to think she might not get in for completely petty and irrelevant reasons, decided by two people whose way of thinking seemed light years away from what she had conceived the Party's ideology to be. She was being kept out of a progressive organization by backward people, and yet the revolution seemed to be telling her that it was she who was in the wrong. 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