“ Ya Ru’s father had drowned in the big political tidal wave that Mao had set in motion. Henning Mankell
“ Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thought crimes,Such questions can turn me to ashes. Zoë S. Roy
“ Part of the Maoist project was the deliberate construction of a new moral identity. To do this it was necessary to destroy people’s previous sense of who they were and to make sure there was no room f… Jonathan Glover
“ Jung Chang said that Mao ruled by getting people to hate each other: ‘Mao had managed to turn the people into the ultimate weapon of dictatorship. That was why under him there was no real equivalent o… Jonathan Glover
