Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
- ISBN-10
- 1439106495
- ISBN-13
- 9781439106495
- Series
- Wild Swans
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 544
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2008-06-20
- Publisher
- Simon and Schuster
- Author
- Jung Chang
Description
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.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By Jung ChangThis is the story of three generations of women in a Chinese family and mirrors the tumultuous history of twentieth century China. Jung Chang's grandmother was born into the feudal China of 1909.
-
The Twelve Wild Swans: A Journey to the Realm of Magic, Healing, and Action
By Starhawk, Hillary ValentineThe long-awaited continuation of the bestselling classic The Spiral Dance
-
백조 왕자
백조 왕자
-
A Wild Swan: And Other Tales
By Michael CunninghamHere are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed: the years after a spell is broken, the rapturous instant of a miracle unexpectedly realized, or the fate of a prince only half cured of a curse.
-
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
By Jung ChangA new edition of one of the best-selling and best-loved books of recent years, with a new introduction by the author.
-
The Wild Swans at Coole
By William Butler YeatsThe Wild Swans at Coole by William Butler Yeats, first published in 1919, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This...
-
The Wild Swans
By Jackie MorrisWith strong characterization of the heroine and also with more rounded characterisation of the wicked stepmother than in the original version, and with delicate watercolor paintings throughout, this is both a wonderful story and delightful ...
-
A Wild Winter Swan: A Novel
By Gregory MaguireAfter brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's "The Wild Swans," transforming ...
-
The Wild Swans
By Hans Christian AndersenThis edition also contains a new translation of Hans Christian Andersen's beloved story The Nightingale, a story about a Chinese emperor who prefers the song of a mechanical nightingale to that of the real bird.
-
The Painter and the Wild Swans
By Claude ClementCHILDREN'S BOOKS/AGES 4-8