Quotes by : Jung Chang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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