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Jung Chang (simplified Chinese: 张戎; traditional Chinese: 張戎; pinyin: Zhāng Róng; Wade–Giles: Chang Jung, Mandarin pronunciation: [tʂɑ́ŋ ɻʊ̌ŋ], born 25 March 1952) is a Chinese-born British writer now living in London, best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, selling over 10 million copies worldwide but banned in the People's Republic of China.

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If you have love, even plain cold water is sweet.

Cold, Love, Plain, Sweet, Water

Although my book is banned I am still allowed to go to China and travel. There is no longer the kind of control that Mao used to have-there have been deep fundamental changes in society.

Book, Fundamental, Fundamentals, Kind, Travel

As a child, my idea of the West was that it was a miasma of poverty and misery, like that of the homeless 'Little Match Girl'in the Hans Christian Andersen story. When I was in the boarding nursery and did not want to finish my food, the teacher would say:'Think of all the starving children in the capitalist world!

Christian, Girl, Miasma, Teacher, World

When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.

Children, Differed, Family, Line, Parent, Party

I no longer have the terrible nightmares that I used to have. Mao had just died in 1976, and China began to open up. For the first time scholarships to go to the West to study were awarded on academic merit.

Academic, Awarded, Died, Firsts, Merit, West

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned.

Book, Chinese, Taiwan, Translation

At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord general.

Age, Fifteen, Grandmother

I remember when my mother pointed to a stone, and she said this was the kind of stone people used to place on the feet of the baby girls to stop them trying to climb away and unbind their feet.

Baby, Girl, Kind, Mother, Place, Pointed

I feel perhaps my heart is still in China.

China, Feels, Heart, Perhaps

For anyone to open their heart, they need the right atmosphere, and something to prompt them. For my mother it was her trip abroad: she was in a very relaxed, understanding environment. I was very sympathetic towards her.

Environment, Heart, Mother, Relaxed, Travel, Trip

. . . boredom was as exhausting as backbreaking labor.

Backbreaking, Boredom, Exhausting, Labor

My father said he was going to write to the Jinzhou City Party Committee asking for permission to 'talk about love'. . . My mother supposed it was a bit like asking permission from the head of the family. . . the Communist Party was the new patriarch.

Father, Jinzhou, Mother, Party, Said, Talk

In spring 1989. . . I saw the buildup of demonstrations from Chengdu to Tiananmen Square. It struck me that fear had been forgotten to such an extent that few of the millions of demonstrators perceived danger. Most seemed to be taken by surprise when the army opened fire.

Army, Demonstrators, Spring, Square, Taken

If children were brought up to become non-conformists it would only ruin their lives. So parents all over China who loved their children told them to do as Chairman Mao said. It was not possible to tell them anything else.

Chairman, Children, Parent, Possible, Ruins, Said

What has marked Chinese society is its level of cruelty, not just revolutions and wars. We ought to reject it totally, otherwise in another upheaval there will be further cruelty.

Chinese, Marked, Ought, Upheaval, War

While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

Realised, Research, Swans, Writing

. . . go in the direction your head is pointed in.

Direction, Head, Pointed

When he asked my grandmother if she would mind being poor, she said she would be happy just to have her daughter and himself: 'If you have love, even plain water is sweet.

Daughter, Grandmother, Love, Sweet