Jung Chang Quotes

• If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

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  Sweet, Water, Cold

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings.

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  Fashion, Confused, People

  Jung Chang (2003). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.518, Simon and Schuster

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• When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

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  Children, Party, Parent

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• As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!

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  Girl, Christian, Teacher

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.246, Simon and Schuster

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• When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

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  Dog, Men, Heaven

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• 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 them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

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  Children, Parent, Ruins

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• I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

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  Home, Past, Chinese

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• When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

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  Love, Daughter, Sweet

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

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  Girl, Mother, Baby

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• China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

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  People, Scar, Not Happy

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• My grandmother's feet had been bound when she was two years old. Her mother...first wound a piece of white cloth about twenty feet long round her feet, bending all the toes except the big toe inward and under the sole. Then she placed a large stone on top to crush the arch.

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  Crush, Mother, Years

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• At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

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  Grandmother, Age, Fifteen

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• ...go in the direction your head is pointed in.

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  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• 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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  War, Chinese, Upheaval

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• I think because of their terrible past, particularly this century, the Chinese have come to accept cruelty more than many other people, which is something I feel very unhappy about

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  Thinking, Past, People

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• While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

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  Writing, Swans, Research

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• Aunque mi libro está prohibido, puedo ir a China y viajar. Ya no existe el tipo de control que ejercía Mao; se han producido profundos cambios fundamentales en la sociedad.

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  Travel, Book, Fundamentals

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• For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

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  Mother, Travel, Heart

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• Mi padre dijo que iba a escribir al Comité del Partido de la ciudad de Jinzhou para pedir permiso para "hablar de amor"... Mi madre supuso que era un poco como pedir permiso al cabeza de familia... el Partido Comunista era el nuevo patriarca.

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  Mother, Father, Party

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• I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

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  Heart, China, Feels

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• ...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

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  Boredom, Labor, Exhausting

  Jung Chang (2008). “Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

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  West, Firsts, Merit

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• In spring 1989...I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.

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  Spring, Taken, Army

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• Me encantaría que los chinos continentales leyeran mi libro. Hay una traducción al chino en la que he trabajado yo mismo, publicada en Hong Kong y Taiwán. Han llegado muchos ejemplares a China, pero sigue prohibido.

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  Book, Chinese, Taiwan

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• I was not allowed to take notes but my friend and I memorised those two and a half pages. Most people talked to me because of the warning. They knew this book was not going to be the official line.

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  Book, Sea, Two

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