8 quotes found
“But it also had many large posters with messages of a more peaceful nature. These extolled the countrys economic achievement since the Cultural Revolution, which was supposed to have liberated the ...”
“He raised his arm to strike me. At that very moment, [my daughter] Meiping's cat, Fluffy, came through the kitchen door, jumped on the man's leg from behind, and sank his teeth into the flesh of th...”
“One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Partys demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns...”
“For so many years, the official propaganda machinery had denounced humanitarianism as sentimental trash and advocated human relations based entirely on class allegiance. But my personal experience ...”
“As I stood in the room looking at it for the last time, I felt again the cold metal of the handcuffs on my wrists and remembered the physical suffering and mental anguish I had endured while fighti...”
“Pilfering was common in Communist Chinas state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair com...”
“But after living in Communist China for the past seventeen years, I knew that such a society was only a dream because those who seized power would invariably become the new ruling class. They would...”
“Pilfering was common in Communist China’s state-owned enterprises, as the Party secretaries were slack in guarding properties that belonged to the government and poorly paid workers felt it fair co...”
