Quotes by : Nien Cheng

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party’s demand....

But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only....

As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs....

For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash....

But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the country’s....

He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment, [my daughter] Meiping's cat, Fluffy, came through....

Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack....