Description

Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has turned into a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with increased than ten-million copies sold. The history of three generations in twentieth century China, it's an engrossing history of Mao's influence on China, an unique window on the feminine experience in today's modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love. Jung Chang describes the life span of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal throughout the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at age fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician.