![]() ![]() Books, especially literature, were burned and writers were sent to jail or labor camps, she said.įor Chang, it was impossible to become a writer, as nearly all of them were jailed, sent to labor camps or even executed. Entertainment was considered a sinful thing. ![]() They did not have public parks or gardens. Anyone who showed any interest in his or her appearance was condemned as bourgeois and spiritually corrupt,” she recalled. “If the Red Guards saw women with long hair and wearing high heels, they would slice them off. Seeing beautiful things makes us happy, and it personally gives me pleasure.”īeauty and happiness are two words that rarely came to her mind in her early life during Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution.Ĭhina, at the time, she recalled, was grim and barren, with people only allowed to dress in Mao’s dark blue or grey jackets and pants during winter and white clothes in spring and summer. ![]() I bought this pretty outfit made by a local designer during my trip to Cartagena, Columbia. While in the country for the recent Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, the 65-year-old author looked beautiful and glamorous in her long green silk dress. ![]()
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