Family Quote by John Lloyd

“I remember when Deng said, ‘It doesn’t matter if the cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice.’ To which Mao…

— Tom Clancy

“Mao has never accepted the failure of the "Great Leap". As one of the texts reproduced below demonstrates, he would have preferred to see…

— Simon Leys

“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

“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

“The important point, and the crux of the Mao heresy, is that the rural peasant is the base of power. This is a rural,…

— J.C. Wylie

“The Chinese have a very good proverb: The bird of sorrow has to fly, but see that it does not nest in your mind.”

— Angelo Scolozzi

Mao said he was prepared to have millions of Chinese people perish in a nuclear war as long as China survived... I'm beginning to…

— Arundhati Roy

“He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox. Chinese Sayings”

— Helen Evans Brown

“On TV he had seen how the Chinese cooked their rice, and it wasn’t with chickpeas and chicken as Rayiha did; they boiled it…

— Orhan Pamuk

“When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb”

— Rebecca Yount

“P.F. Chang’s China Bistro Chicken Fried Rice”

— Alisa Marie Fleming