by Jung Chang · Flamingo · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780006545996
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«Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China» is the autobiography of Jung Chang, published by Flamingo in paperback (696 pages, in English).
Jung Chang reconstructs the story of three generations of women in her family in twentieth-century China: her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother, a communist militant; and herself, as a Red Guard, peasant, doctor, worker and electrician. It combines intimate memoir and historical chronicle of the impact of Mao and the Cultural Revolution.
The work, originally published in 1992, falls within the thematic categories of History and Biography.
A work suitable for those interested in the history of China, biographies of women and twentieth-century memoirs.
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.
