Able Quote by J. G. Ballard

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai.

— J. G. Ballard

In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside…

— J. G. Ballard

I was living in the border area with China, in Hyesan City. But after my father was imprisoned for informal trading, I escaped to…

— Park Yeon-mi

My first trip to China was in 1975 when my father was the 'bicycling ambassador' representing the U.S. in Beijing. This was a time…

— Neil Bush

I first came to China as a child on a visit with my family in 1978.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and no one…

— Hugh Dennis

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works…

— Ma Jian

My father's father fled a pogrom in Russia in the early 20th century and was welcomed to the United States. So was my stepmother,…

— Antony Blinken

I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.

— Ma Jian

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work…

— Kevin Kwan

However, when my parents married in 1945, China was in turmoil and the possibility of returning grew increasingly remote, and they decided to begin…

— Steven Chu