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“...Inflation had risen to the unimaginable figure of just over 100,000 percent by the end of 1947--and it was to go to 2,870,000 percent by the end of 1948...”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“What though the radiance that was once so bright, be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.”
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“Father is close, Mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“The Japanese are a disease of the skin...the Communists are a disease of the heart. Everything personal was political... Two reds sandwiching a black...”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
“But her greatest assets were her bound feet, called in Chinese "three-inch golden lilies" (san-tsun-gin-lian). This meant she walked "like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze," as Chinese connoisseurs of women traditionally put it. The sight of a woman teetering on bound feet was supposed to have an erotic effect on men, partly because her vulnerability induced a feeling of protectiveness in the onlooker.”
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
― Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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