Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China — Jung Chang
Title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Author: Jung Chang
Publisher: Flamingo / HarperCollins
Format: Paperback
Edition: Special overseas edition, 1992. First published in Great Britain in 1991.
ISBN: 0006374921 / 9780006374923
Condition: Second-hand. Paperback with shelf wear, cover creasing, edge wear, age-toned pages and a noticeable tear/chip to the top front cover. Please see photos for the exact copy available.
Wild Swans is Jung Chang’s powerful family memoir tracing three generations of women through twentieth-century China: her grandmother, her mother and Chang herself. Moving through warlord China, Japanese occupation, the rise of Mao, the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, the book combines intimate family history with a broad account of political upheaval and survival.
A widely read modern classic of memoir and Chinese history, Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and has become one of the best-known personal accounts of life under twentieth-century Chinese communism.