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23 months ago
the problem is, once i start i won’t be able to stop; therefore i must find a comfortable corner and a huge chunk of time and stockpile some food so that i mayn’t be disturbed…even by myself.
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One read to remember
3 years ago
This is one of the best books I’ve read.
Jung Chang talks of the crimes and denunciations in hte communist China almost casually and almost resignedly as I would talk about a stormy summer – (storms just happen, some years more often than others) and that is a cold shower in itself- no one had power to stop those atrocities from happening. And at the end of the day, what justice could be done to all those killed? I think this book does them some justice because their hell has been ‘found out’ to some extent.
And in the same time this book is an eye opener for not taking the western ‘freedom’ that we currently enjoy for granted and maintaining an active attitude in keeping it this way and bettering it. It makes us aware on how evil geniuses operate and the means by which they get to power and how they maintain it…. but not from, say, a well read distinguished foreign historian’s perspective, but from the eyes of local people….. How people identify with ideals and become tools for others with more power…. How DANGEROUS lack of uncensored information and, consequently, delusion is…. lots of things to chew over.
As if this didn’t make enough for a good read, to top it up,
Yung Chang’s personal preservation journey is very inspiring, she ingenuously took advantage of every opportunity she could to better herself and to keep her sanity and develop a mind of her own. Not to mention the spirits of her amazing mother. And father. I loved it.
Wild Swans
4 years ago
this book is from Peter, he back to London already, I got it as a gift. the book talks about three daughters of China. he said that I can learn something from this book. mm, going to finish it before August. just read thirty pages, now reading about “san cun jin lian” – bound feet of Chinese woman in 20s, that’s really pain – how can a woman “walk like a tender young willow shoot in a spring breeze” when her feet are bound!!!!
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