Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang provides a thoughtful and beautifully painful chronology of three generations of women through some of China’s harshest periods in history. This book review will proceed in two parts. The first will address the significant themes present in Chang...
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Summary In Wild Swans Jung Chang recounts the evocative, unsettling, and insistently gripping story of how three generations of women in her family fared in the political maelstrom of China during the 20th century. Chang's grandmother was a warlord's concubine. Her gently raised mother struggled...
Jung Chang's Wild Swans: Three Daughters of Chinaachieved spectacular success and received worldwide critical acclaim. The way that academic and non-academic circles in the West readily embrace it betrays an unqualified equation of the book to a reliable source of knowledge regarding Chinese culture...
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'It's taken us ten years and it was constant excitement,' she tells me over tea at her sumptuous family home in Notting Hill. The book is a powerful follow-up to Wild Swans, her bestselling memoir about growing up under Mao's regime.Wheelwright, Julie...
The methodology focuses on a case study examining Jung Chan's Wild Swans (1991) which exemplifies the way in which the Chinese government has censored material revealing life under, and since, the MaoCommunist regime. This family history details the lives of three generations of women inChan's...
Chairman Mao nearly killed Jung Chang. "There were no safety rules in my factory," she recalls. "I realised there was probably a screw loose at the back of a power-distribution board. I was so stupid. Instead of switching off the electric supply first, I poked my screwdriver into the ...