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Anchee Min Biography

Anchee Min or Min Anqi (Chinese: 閔安琪; pinyin: Mǐn Ānqí; born January 14, 1957 in Shanghai, China) is a Chinese-American author who lives in San Francisco and Shanghai. Min has published two memoirs, Red Azalea and The Cooked Seed: A Memoir, and six historical novels. Her fiction emphasizes strong female characters, such as Jiang Qing, the wife of chairman Mao Zedong, and Empress Dowager Cixi, the last ruling empress of China.

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lack of will power leads to more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Failure, Will Power, Ability, Power, Intelligence

The self was a very strange concept to me until I came to America, and my child was born with that entitlement, and that just thrilled me.

America, Born, Children, Concept, Self

There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks.

Book, Books, China, Evil, Examine, Orchids

If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.

Back, Fighter, Fighting, Learn, Mother, Womb

No matter how American I become, I'm considered part of the Chinese community by my own family.

Become, Chinese, Community, Family, Matter

I was happy not to be in his place. He could command my death, but not his. But then, what kind of power was his? He was a prisoner of himself.

Command, Death, Happy, Kind, Power, Prisoner

Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!

Brain, Dead, Long, Marx, Men

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me.

Able, Art, Luxury

My goal was to do anything that would lead to a job. I know that writing would not lead to a job. It's too fancy for me. My biggest goal was to be an office receptionist, answer phones. I didn't expect to go beyond that.

Jobs, Writing, Phones, Lead, Receptionist

If one wants to get a boat ride, one must be near the river.

Boat, Opportunity, Ride, River, Rivers, Want

my mother was taught the ch'an concept of happiness, which was to find satisfaction in small things. i was taught to appreciate the fresh air in the morning, the colour of leaves turning red in autumn and the water's smoothness when i soaked my hands in the basin.

Air, Autumn, Hands, Leaves, Morning, Mother

I think about giving up. I almost do.

Giving, Giving Up, Think, Thinking

My parents lived likeas the neighbours described thema pair of chopsticks, always in harmony.

Harmony, Likeas, Pairs, Parent, Thema

My mind swirled with memories of the life I had led. The constant struggle to keep up appearances, the pretenses, the smiles that had been met with tears. The long sleepless nights, the loneliness that cloaked my spirit and turned me into a true ghost.

Loneliness, Memories, Sleepless, Struggle, Swirled

The sun doesn't just hang on one family's tree

Good Luck, Hang, Luck, Sun, Tree

When Chinese get together - what's buried stays buried. We don't even discuss our embarrassing early days struggling in Chicago.

Chicago, Chinese, Stays, Struggle, Struggling, Together

We were meant to survive because of our minds' ability to reason, our ability to live with frustration in order to maintain our virtue. We wore smiling masks while dying inside.

Frustration, Masks, Mind, Minds, Order