When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.
Anchee MinThe self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.
Anchee MinDo you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!
Anchee MinMy mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.
Anchee Min