Foreign affairs Quote by Gordon Chang

“Some believe his political vulnerabilities have not only driven him into the arms of Mao but also the clutches of the country’s generals and…

— Gordon Chang

“after seeing decades of Maoist campaigns, that idealism mostly resulted in misery. China would be helped only as ordinary citizens went about bettering their…

— Gordon G. Chang

“As I gazed at Mao’s face wearing what was intended as a benign expression but was in fact a smirk of self-satisfaction, I wondered…

— Nien Cheng

So far as Chairman Mao's own hopes were concerned, he initiated the "Cultural Revolution" in order to avert the restoration of capitalism, but he…

— Deng Xiaoping

I doubt very much if Mao would ever command great respect from the intellectual élite of China, perhaps not entirely because he has an…

— Edgar Snow

“I was extremely curious about the alternatives to the kind of life I had been leading, and my friends and I exchanged rumors and…

— Jung Chang

“The limits of Mao’s system have just about been reached. Party cadres say they want the benefits of the Internet, but they also want…

— Gordon G. Chang

“The Maoist mechanisms of social control have been loosened. A totalitarian state has become merely an authoritarian one.”

— Gordon G. Chang

“Such indirection and ambivalence typify the politics of Wong's work. He's not in any conventional sense an ideological filmmaker. "It's never been my intention,"…

— Wong Kar Wai, John Powers

“Mao sanctified propaganda and censorship as essential parts of Thought Work, and he relied on them to reframe the Long March as a strategic…

— Evan Osnos

“During Mao’s era, the Chinese people were absolutely controlled by the Communist Party that decided food and accommodation, education and employment, what to think…

— Zoë S. Roy

“Mao Zedong himself would have realized that the Communist Party has become weak. “All reactionaries are paper tigers,” he said. And Mao said something…

— Gordon G. Chang