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.
Jung ChangChina is more prosperous than before. The people have better lives but they are not happy and confident because the scars are still there.
Jung ChangWhile 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.
Jung Chang