Quotes by : Jung Chang

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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