Jan Wong > Quotes

“Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.”
― Jan Wong, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now

“…depressive realism. Depression is not the near death experience described by so many, [Kayla Dunn] suggests, but a rebirth in which the new psyche has removed self-delusion. Compared with so-called healthy individuals, depressives are more realistic in their worldview.”
― Jan Wong, Out of the Blue

“As the past disappears, I keep getting lost.”
― Jan Wong

“Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.”
― Jan Wong

“During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese lived and died by their class backgrounds. They boasted about ancestors who had starved to death. But if a banker or landowner lurked in their background, they dropped their voices low and disclosed the shameful fact as if they came from a long line of pedophiles.”
― Jan Wong, Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now