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Jung Chang has 27 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of…
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For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her…
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
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If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their…
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I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to…
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When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party…
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While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised…
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I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place…
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I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people,…
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The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People…
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I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked…
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I just want to stay in my hotel room, read my book. I enjoy that private time.
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