“The establishment of troops in the cultural circles has this problem: the class element is relatively complicated. But, while a person cannot decide his own origin, his performance and attitude still count.”

—  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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