Cases Quote by Jung Chang

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told…

— Jung Chang

“One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party’s demand that people inform on…

— 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

We must make a clear distinction between the nature of Chairman Mao's mistakes and the crimes of Lin Biao and the Gang of Four.…

— Deng Xiaoping

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that…

— Jung Chang

We were for Mao, but when we saw the films he was making, they were bad. So we understood that there was necessarily something…

— Jean-Luc Godard

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

— Gordon G. Chang

One thing that Chairman Mao did was to end the appalling foot binding of women. That alone justifies the Mao Tse-tung era.

— Ken Livingstone

Chairman Mao was after all a principal founder of the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China. In evaluating his merits and…

— Deng Xiaoping

It's taken us 10 years, and it was constant excitement. I was constantly shocked by how evil he could be. Mao was very, very…

— Jung Chang

“Nearly all children nowadays were horrible. What was worst of all was that by means of such organizations as the Spies they were systematically…

— George Orwell

“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