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The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together in one China, we are, in fact, but a sheet of loose sand.

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

My grandmother, my mother and my aunts and their friends were all of southern Chinese ancestry, and they were all strong figures. Though if you asked them who was the head of their families, they would have said their husbands; and yet it was the women who ran everything.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the time. So by the time I get to Hong Kong, I become the only child and the only one surrounded by adults, you know.

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.