Wild Swans by Jung Chang
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author.An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution.
Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving--and ultimately uplifting--detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Jung Chang is the best-selling author of Wild Swans, dubbed the most widely read book about China by The Asian Wall Street Journal, and Mao: The Unknown Story (co-authored with Jon Halliday), dubbed an atom bomb of a book by Time. Outside of mainland China, where they are both banned, her works have been translated into over forty languages and sold over fifteen million copies. She was born in 1952 in China and moved to the United Kingdom in 1978. She is based in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780743246989 |
| ISBN 10 | 0743246985 |
| Title | Wild Swans |
| Author | Jung Chang |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2003-08-12 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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