Jung Chang
Paperback | Pages: 562 pages Rating: 4.26 | 84958 Users | 5379 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | China |
| Literary Awards: | NCR Book Award (1992), British Book Award (1993) |
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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.Point Out Of Books Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
| Title | : | Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China |
| Author | : | Jung Chang |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 562 pages |
| Published | : | August 12th 2003 by Simon Schuster (first published September 1st 1991) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Cultural. China. Biography. Autobiography. Memoir. Asia. Historical |
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@Manny to certain degree, what the female lady you know is quite right, if any Chinese who was determined to write a book in English, which would beWild Swans is a candid and harrowing account of three remarkable Chinese women -grandmother, mother and daughter- but also gives us a very good picture of what China was like from the turn of the Century to the 1980'sWe learn about the ancient culture of the Chinese which included much that was beautiful and some that seems cruel. We learn of the hope of so many Chinese that the overthrow of the Kuomintang would lead to a' just social order' but how it soon became clear that the worst excesses
Its well worth it, Jenny, but it is an investment of time. So many books out there!
If you read only one book about twentieth century China, let this be the one. A mish-mash of personal memoir, family saga, history, feminist literature, and global and Chinese politics, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China covers it all vividly. The book covers the life of Jung Chang's grandmother, her mother, and herself over the course of a China that was constantly changing in response to the changing times and the challenges it was facing.Chang starts off with her grandmother's story: a
Great Morgan!
Two back to back books related to China? This sounds fascinating, thanks for review. I find it extraordinary that strong family ties could coexist
I don't think necklacing was used in China at all or in the USSR. It's mostly an African phenomenon and best known for its widespread usage in South
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