Quotes by Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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They were endowed with the qualities of youth- they were rebellious, fearless, eager to fight for a 'just cause', thirst — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman. "Let me become a c — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached to her family," whic — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an outsider. One day, — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give him much chance to — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated the private sphere. — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank you" too often, whic — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking to me, endlessly, wit — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing that determined the r — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, like reading novels: — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I could see that some — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grand––quite different from my — Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China