by Jung Chang · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006374923
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«Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China» is Jung Chang's family saga, published by Flamingo in paperback (688 pages, in English).
Jung Chang reconstructs twentieth-century China through three generations of women in her family: her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother, persecuted during the Cultural Revolution; and the author herself, a former Red Guard. The narrative spans the end of the Manchu empire, the Japanese occupation and Mao's purges.
First installment of Jung Chang's China Duology series. The work won the NCR Book Award in 1992 and the British Book Award in 1993.
Aimed at readers interested in twentieth-century Chinese history, women's biographies and first-hand political testimonies.
Jung Chang is a Chinese-born British author. She is best known for her family autobiography Wild Swans, which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide but is banned in the People's Republic of China. Her 832-page biography of Mao Zedong, Mao: The Unknown Story, written with her husband, the Irish historian Jon Halliday, was published in June 2005. Reception of the work by academics has been largely negative, though the work has received acclaim in the popular press.
