“I wasn't an especially rebellious child, but I can say I gave my parents a lot of trouble at times. Because I had a lot of guts and was always taking risks, I either got hurt or sometimes broke other people's things and caused problems. I always sparked a lot of trouble.”

—  Wei Jingsheng

Interview with the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley (1998), Background

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