Through the story of three generations of women in her own family- the grandmother given to the warlord as a concubine, the Communist mother and the daughter herself- Jung Chang reveals the epic history of China’s twentieth century.
‘One of the great books of the century.’ Financial Times
‘There has never been a book like this.’ Edward Behr, Los Angeles Times
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About 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 China to receive a doctorate from a British university. Her award-winning book, Wild Swans, was published in 1991.
