Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

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Daughters of China
Chinese family
Three daughters

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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 globe, now with a new introduction from the creator.

An engrossing record of Mao’s affect on China, an ordinary window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love, Jung Chang describes the abnormal lives and experiences of her members of the family: 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 all over the Cultural Revolution. Chang was once 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 and every generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving—and in the long run uplifting—detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.
Daughters of China
Chinese family
Three daughters
Mao
Jung Chang

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