I Was Not Allowed To Take Notes

The Chinese Seemed To Be Mourning Mao In A Heartfelt Fashion. But I Wondered How Many Of Their Tears Were Genuine. People Had Practiced Acting To Such A Degree That They Confused It With Their True Feelings.

As A Child, My Idea Of The West Was That It Was A Miasma Of Poverty And Misery, Like That Of The Homeless 'little Match Girl'in The Hans Christian Andersen Story. When I Was In The Boarding Nursery And Did Not Want To Finish My Food, The Teacher Would Say:'think Of All The Starving Children In The Capitalist World!

I Feel Perhaps My Heart Is Still In China.

What Has Marked Chinese Society Is Its Level Of Cruelty, Not Just Revolutions And Wars. We Ought To Reject It Totally, Otherwise In Another Upheaval There Will Be Further Cruelty.

I Would Love Mainland Chinese To Read My Book. There Is A Chinese Translation Which I Worked On Myself, Published In Hong Kong And Taiwan. Many Copies Have Gone Into China But It Is Still Banned.