Wild Swans: Three Daughters of ChinaJung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at theage of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, "a barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. |
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 13 |
MAP | 24 |
Even Plain Cold Water is Sweet | 57 |
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