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I always wanted to be a writer.
Jung Chang / Writer
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I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.
Jung Chang / Writer
China
Feels
Heart
Perhaps
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...go in the direction your head is pointed in.
Jung Chang / Writer
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If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.
Jung Chang / Writer
Cold
Sweet
Water
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...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.
Jung Chang / Writer
Boredom
Exhausting
Labor
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When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.
Jung Chang / Writer
Men
Dog
Heaven
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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.
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Age
Fifteen
Grandmother
General
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
China
Not Happy
People
Prosperous
Scar
Confident
Scars
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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 / Writer
Human Beings
Humans
Outsiders
Regard
Beings
Consequently
Proper
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Famine
Mismanagement
Realised
Research
Sinister
Swans
Writing
Wild
Result
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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 / Writer
Constant
Excitement
Mao
Shocked
Shrewd
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Daughter
Love
Sweet
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
War
Chinese
Cruelty
Upheaval
Revolutions
Totally
Wars
Further
Marked
Otherwise
Reject
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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
Jung Chang / Writer
Past
People
Thinking
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Chinese
Cruelty
Terrible
Unhappy
Past People Feel
Particularly
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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 / Writer
China
Controlled
Frustrating
Halt
Throughout
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Travel
Banned
Book
China
Fundamentals
Mao
Allowed
Although
Fundamental
Longer
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Girl
Baby
Feet
Mother
Remember When
Climb
Pointed
Stone
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Banned
Book
China
Chinese
Copies
Hong Kong
Taiwan
Published
Translation
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Chairman
Children
China
Mao
Parent
Party
Terrified
Family Children Parents
Endangered
Party Line
Repeated
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Book
Notes
Pages
Sea
Two
Warning
Me People Friend
Allowed
My Friend
Official
Talked
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Chinese
Confused
Fashion
Genuine
Heartfelt
Mao
Mourning
People
Tears
Degree
Practiced
Seemed
Wondered
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Academic
China
Died
First Time
Firsts
Mao
Merit
Study
West
Time First Time Go
Awarded
Began
Scholarships
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Travel
Atmosphere
Environment
Heart
Mother
Relaxed
Sympathetic
Understanding
Abroad
Towards
Prompt
Trip
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Chairman
Chairman Mao
Children
China
Mao
Parent
Ruins
Anything Else
Brought
Ruin
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Home
China
Chinese
Constant
Destroyed
Furniture
Painful
Past
Ugliness
Nowhere
How Much
Reminder
Sharper
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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.
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Father
Mother
Party
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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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Army
Spring
Taken
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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.
Jung Chang / Writer
Crush
Mother
Years
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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!
Jung Chang / Writer
Girl
Teacher
Christian
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