Jung Chang Quotes

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

The two women did more than resolve a major problem, they went on to form a political alliance and l...

Dr. Xia was working as a salaried doctor attached to another man's medicine shop, which did not give...

Meetings were an important means of Communist control. They left people no free time, and eliminated...

Over the years of the Cultural Revolution, I was to witness people being attacked for saying "thank ...

At night I locked my bedroom door, because [my father] could not sleep and would insist on talking t...

Every time she went home she found herself being criticized. She was accused of being "too attached ...

There were no state regulations about hairstyles or clothes. It was what everyone else was wearing t...

We visited Mao's old house, which had been turned into a museum-cum-shrine. It was rather grand––qui...

Instead of sniping at her like Mrs. Mi, Mrs. Ting let my mother do all sorts of things she wanted, l...

They were endowed with the qualities of youth- they were rebellious, fearless, eager to fight for a ...

My mother could see that as far as my father's relationship with the Party was concerned, she was an...

For Cixi, the whole episode taught her that to survive at court she must hold her tongue about state...

As events would show, Cixi was indeed opposed to the foreign policy of her husband and his inner cir...

Finally, in 1888, Cixi approved the Western-style Navy Regulations. It was in endorsing these Regula...

Cixi’s lack of formal education was more than made up for by her intuitive intelligence, which she l...

Cixi was not at the coronation. The majestic main part of the Forbidden City was out of bounds to he...

Before our "company" set off, at a wink from the officer, Plumpie stood up and proposed a search. I ...

She was a pious Buddhist and every day in her prayers asked Buddha not ro reincarnate her as a woman...

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything th...