Quotes by Jung Chang

Jung Chang

…boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Boredom

Exhausting

Labor

…go in the direction your head is pointed in.

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.

Book

Fundamentals

Travel

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!

Christian

Girl

Teacher

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

Age

Fifteen

Grandmother

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

Not Happy

People

Scar

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.

Heart

Mother

Travel

I always wanted to be a writer.

Wanted

I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

China

Feels

Heart

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.

Chinese

Home

Past

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Christian

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Crush

Daughter

Dog

Exhausting

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Father

Feels

Fifteen

Firsts

Fundamentals

Girl

Grandmother

Heart

Heaven

Home

Labor

Love

Men

Merit

Mother

Not Happy

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Party

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People

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Ruins

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Spring

Swans

Sweet

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Taken

Teacher

Thinking

Travel

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Quotes by Jung Chang

Jung Chang

…boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

…go in the direction your head is pointed in.

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.

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

China is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.

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.

I always wanted to be a writer.

I feel perhaps my heart is still in 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.

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