Li Zhisui > Quotes

“I want it to serve as a reminder of the terrible human consequences of Mao’s dictatorship and of how good and talented people living under his regime were forced to violate their consciences and sacrifice their ideals in order to survive.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“All the able-bodied males, the real farmers of China, had been taken out of agricultural production to tend the backyard steel furnaces.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“he would dare to transform China and make it great. He would build his own Great Walls.”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“Kaysone Phoumvihan”
― Li Zhisui, The Private Life of Chairman Mao

“Even today, the Communist party continues to demand that people attack the innocent. It requires people to pledge public support for policies with which they do not agree. Survival in China, then and now, depends on constantly betraying one's conscience.”
― Dr. Li Zhisui