12 Jung Chang Quotes for You to Enjoy

Jung Chang

British Writer

Born: Mar 25, 1952

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

Age General Became Fifteen Grandmother

I feel perhaps my heart is still in China. Jung Chang

Heart Feel Perhaps Still China

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. Jung Chang

Home Beauty Past Furniture Destroyed Has-Been Constant Reminder Between Sharper Like How How Much Ugliness Been Contrast Than Modern China Chinese Much Painful Nowhere

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

Parents Become Else Ruin Possible Tell Would Brought Only Over Said Were Up Children Anything Loved Anything Else China Them Who Mao Chairman Chairman Mao Lives

In certain areas where the media are still controlled, the changes have come to a halt, which is a very frustrating situation. I would like the changes to take place throughout China. Jung Chang

Situation Changes Would Area Throughout Take Come Like Halt Still Very Controlled Where Place Which China Frustrating Certain Media

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 shrewd but he didn't have human feeling. Jung Chang

Evil Feeling Constant Constantly Could He Taken Excitement How Years Very Shocked Human Us Mao Shrewd

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves. Jung Chang

Government Own Our Kind Some Proper Outsiders Were Did Same Human Human Beings Regard Themselves Us Beings Humans Treated Consequently

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. Jung Chang

Will Cruelty Society Otherwise Marked Ought Further Totally Another Upheaval Revolutions Just Chinese Wars Level Reject

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. Jung Chang

Family Parents Party Tell Case Terrified Party Line Line Were Repeated Endangered Children Anything China Whole Mao Chairman

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