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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

Pages
688
Published
1993
Language
English

Synopsis

Jung Chang's memoir offers a remarkable look at China's tumultuous 20th century through the eyes of her family. It details the lives of her mother and grandmother, navigating immense social and political upheaval from the 1920s through the Cultural Revolution. This is a powerful story of resilience and the enduring strength of women.

About the author

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Jung Chang

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was a red guard briefly at the age of fourteen and then worked as a peasant, a 'barefoot doctor', a steelworker, and an electrician before becoming an English language student and, later, an assistant lecturer at Sichuan University. She left China for Britain in 1978 and was subsequently awarded a scholarship by York University, where she obtained a Ph.D. in linguistics in 1982 - the first person from the People's Republic of Ch...

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