Wild Swans

Three Daughters of China
by Chang, Jung
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    Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of thr...
 
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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is 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 life of 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.

Author:
Chang, Jung
ISBN:
9780743246989
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
544
Publish Date:
08/05/2003
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Language:
English
Portions copyright 2005 Muze Inc. All rights reserved.

 

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Overall Rating: 4

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Informative but rambling

tomjett Sep 3, 2006

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  • Entertainment Value:3 out of 5
  • Value:3 out of 5

Not that well written, and rambling, but provides lots of information on Chinese history. The chaotic nature of the writing portrays the chaos that the Chinese have endured for many centuries.

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