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

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...go in the direction your head is pointed in. by Jung Chang

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

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor. by Jung Chang

...boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

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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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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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At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a wa... by Jung Chang

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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