"What has marked Chinese society is its level……" — Jung Chang
"What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty."
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25 Quotes by Jung Chang
Jung Chang has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the…
- For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it…
- When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
- At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
- If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who…
- I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China…
- When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from…
- While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research…
- I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used…
- I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many…
- The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were…
- I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most…