“I feel very sorry that for a very long time I have not had hearings of opinions of comrades. I can well understand it if comrades should have some opinion against us; for comrades know about our conditions.”

— Jiang Qing

Source: Talk at the Peking Forum on Literature and Art (9 and 12 November 1967)

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Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong 1914–1991

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