Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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HarperCollins Publishers, Oct 27, 2011 - Biography & Autobiography - 720 pages

Few books have had such an impact as Wild Swans: a popular bestseller which has sold more than 13 million copies and a critically acclaimed history of China; a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.

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.

Breathtaking in its scope, unforgettable in its descriptions, this is a masterpiece which is extraordinary in every way.

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Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
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About the author (2011)

Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. She was briefly a Red Guard at the age of fourteen, and then a peasant, a ‘barefoot doctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. ‘Wild Swans’ won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. She lives in London.

Bibliographic information

TitleWild Swans: Three Daughters of China
AuthorJung Chang
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers, 2011
ISBN0007379870, 9780007379873
Length720 pages
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Biography & Autobiography / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / Asian & Asian American
Biography & Autobiography / General
Biography & Autobiography / Historical
Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs
Biography & Autobiography / Women
History / Asia / China
History / Asia / General
History / Modern / 20th Century / General
History / World
Social Science / Women's Studies
  
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