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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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Generational saga amid tumultuous Chinese history.

If you're intrigued by the resilience of people through seismic historical shifts, "Wild Swans" is a must-read. As a narrative that spans over a century of Chinese history through the intimate lens of three generations of women, it offers a personal touch to monumental events. Jung Chang has composed a poignant tale that's not just educational but also rich in emotional depth. It's the kind of book that'll stick with you long after turning the last page.

  • NCR Book Award (1992)
  • British Book Award (1993)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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ISBN: 9780006374923
Authors: Jung Chang
Publisher: Flamingo
Date of Publication: 1993-06-14
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 4.28
(rated by 112139 readers)

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An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found here. In Wild Swans, Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents. Includes black and white photographs, family tree, chronology, and map.
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Generational saga amid tumultuous Chinese history.

If you're intrigued by the resilience of people through seismic historical shifts, "Wild Swans" is a must-read. As a narrative that spans over a century of Chinese history through the intimate lens of three generations of women, it offers a personal touch to monumental events. Jung Chang has composed a poignant tale that's not just educational but also rich in emotional depth. It's the kind of book that'll stick with you long after turning the last page.

  • NCR Book Award (1992)
  • British Book Award (1993)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.