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