China Quote by Nien Cheng

“My own outlook and my values had been formed long ago. I did not believe in dividing people into rigid classes, and I did…

— Nien Cheng

“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

Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her steadfast loyalty…

— Nien Cheng

“Justice? What is justice? It's a mere word. It's an abstract word with no universal meaning. To different classes of people, justice means different…

— Nien Cheng

“Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly…

— Nien Cheng

“For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But…

— Nien Cheng

“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

“Bad experience is more bearable when you are not the only sufferer.”

— Nien Cheng

“But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution,…

— Nien Cheng

“Large portraits of Mao on wooden boards several feet high stood at main street corners. Painted to make the old man look extremely youthful,…

— Nien Cheng

“But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who…

— Nien Cheng

I think the democratic movement will be repressed for now, only to erupt again somewhere down the line.And more blood will be shed, just…

— Nien Cheng