“I was hungry when I left Pyongyang. I wasn't hungry just for a bookshop that sold books that weren't about Fat Man and Little Boy. I wasn't ravenous just for a newspaper that had no pictures of F.M. and L.B. I wasn't starving just for a TV program or a piece of music or theater or cinema that wasn't cultist and hero-worshiping. I was hungry. I got off the North Korean plane in Shenyang, one of the provincial capitals of Manchuria, and the airport buffet looked like a cornucopia. I fell on the food, only to find that I couldn't do it justice, because my stomach had shrunk. And as a foreign tourist in North Korea, under the care of vigilant minders who wanted me to see only the best, I had enjoyed the finest fare available.” LiteratureMusicFoodTelevisionBooksHungerTheatreNewspapersPropagandaCinemaAirportsTotalitarianismNorth KoreaTourismCultsHero Worship2000Kim Jong IlKim Il SungPyongyangManchuriaTourism In North KoreaShenyang Book:Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays Source: Love, Poverty, and War: Journeys and Essays
“She looks at me in astonishment. ‘Manchuria is gone. Japan is paralysed! Now China and Japan do not have a diplomatic relationship. So, no one accepts the Japanese yen!” HistoryChinaFiction NovelManchuria Book:Farewell China Source: Farewell China
“She stops and turns back to Yuri. She looks at Yuri with warm, kind eyes. Her motherly instinct takes over, and she opens her arms and takes Yuri in her chest, saying, ‘A baby’s crying is the same.” HistoryChinaFiction NovelManchuria Book:Farewell China Source: Farewell China