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Jung Chang
Total Quotes 26
I Always Wanted To Be A Writer.
Wanted
I Would Love Mainland Chinese To Read My Book. There Is A Chinese Translation Which I Worked On Myself, Published In Hong Kong And Taiwan. Many Copies Have Gone Into China But It Is Still Banned.
Book
Chinese
Taiwan
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.
Book
Sea
Two
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.
West
Firsts
Merit
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.
Spring
Taken
Army
...boredom Was As Exhausting As Backbreaking Labor.
Boredom
Labor
Exhausting
I Feel Perhaps My Heart Is Still In China.
Heart
China
Feels
My Father Said He Was Going To Write To The Jinzhou City Party Committee Asking For Permission To 'talk About Love'...my Mother Supposed It Was A Bit Like Asking Permission From The Head Of The Family...the Communist Party Was The New Patriarch.
Mother
Father
Party
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
Thinking
Past
People
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.
War
Chinese
Upheaval
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.
Writing
Swans
Research
...go In The Direction Your Head Is Pointed In.
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.
Mother
Travel
Heart
Although My Book Is Banned I Am Still Allowed To Go To China And Travel. There Is No Longer The Kind Of Control That Mao Used To Have-there Have Been Deep Fundamental Changes In Society.
Travel
Book
Fundamentals
At The Age Of Fifteen My Grandmother Became The Concubine Of A Warlord General.
Grandmother
Age
Fifteen
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.
Crush
Mother
Years
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.
Home
Past
Chinese
China Is More Prosperous Than Before. The People Have Better Lives But They Are Not Happy And Confident Because The Scars Are Still There.
People
Scar
Not Happy
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.
Love
Daughter
Sweet
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.
Girl
Mother
Baby
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.
Children
Party
Parent
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!
Girl
Christian
Teacher
When A Man Gets Power, Even His Chickens And Dogs Rise To Heaven.
Dog
Men
Heaven
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.
Children
Parent
Ruins
Born: March 25, 1952
Occupation: Writer
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