Quotes by : Jung Chang

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

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.....

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

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

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