China in Ten Words
Yu Hua
Top 10 Best Quotes
“It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write. Nothing in the world, perhaps, is so likely to forge a connection between people as pain, because the connection that comes from that source comes from deep in the heart.”
“We survive in adversity and perish in ease and comfort.”
“Three or four years ago, a city education bureau announced a new measure to raise the quality of local teachers and enable graduating high school seniors to be more competitive in the university entrance examination.”
“The timid die of hunger, the bold of overeating.”
“revolution was just a short step away from counterrevolution.”
“Why, when discussing China today, do I always return to the Cultural Revolution? That’s because these two eras are so interrelated: even though the state of society now is very different from then, some psychological elements remain strikingly similar. After participating in one mass movement during the Cultural Revolution, for example, we are now engaged in another: economic development.”
“When I lay down on that clean concrete bed, I found the ideal place for an afternoon nap. On many baking afternoons that followed, if I saw that the morgue was not otherwise occupied, I would lie on the slab and savor its soothing coolness; sometimes in my dreams I would find myself in a garden full of blooming flowers.”
“This was a key moment in my life. I had always assumed that light carries farther than human voices and voices carry farther than body heat. But that night I realized it is not so, for when the people stand as one, their voices carry farther than light and their heat is carried farther still. That, I discovered, is what “the people” means.”
“That is the real tragedy: poverty and hunger are not as shocking as willful indifference to them.”
“It is when the suffering of others becomes part of my own experience that I truly know what it is to live and what it is to write.”
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Book Keywords:
cultural-revolution, china, transformation
