Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China - Softcover
The story of three generations in twentieth-century China that blends the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history--a bestselling classic in thirty languages with more than ten million copies sold around the world, now with a new introduction from the author. An engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the extraordinary lives and experiences of her family members: her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving--and ultimately uplifting--detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
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Carolyn See Newsday Wild Swans is riveting. It's blindingly good: a mad adventure story, a fairy tale of courage, and a tale of atrocities. You can't, as they say, put it down.
The New Yorker Her family chronicle resembles a popular novel that stars strong, beautiful women and provides cameo roles for famous men....But Wild Swans is no romance. It's a story...about the survival of a Chinese family through a century of disaster.
Time A mesmerizing memoir.
"This real-life saga of a Chinese family over three generations contains more violence than any film noir, more heartrending tragedy than Little Dorrit....There has never been a book like this." --Los Angeles Times
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The New Yorker Her family chronicle resembles a popular novel that stars strong, beautiful women and provides cameo roles for famous men....But Wild Swans is no romance. It's a story...about the survival of a Chinese family through a century of disaster.
Time A mesmerizing memoir.
"This real-life saga of a Chinese family over three generations contains more violence than any film noir, more heartrending tragedy than Little Dorrit....There has never been a book like this." --Los Angeles Times
Wild Swans is a tragic tale of nightmarish cruelty and an uplifting story of bravery and survival.
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- PublisherTouchstone Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 0743254392
- ISBN 13 9780743254397
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- Number of pages707
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