num_pages: 696
description: An alternative cover for this ISBN can be found hereIn 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 with hardships in the early days of Mao's revolution and rose, like her husband, to a prominent position in the Communist Party before being denounced during the Cultural Revolution. Chang herself marched, worked, and breathed for Mao until doubt crept in over the excesses of his policies and purges. Born just a few decades apart, their lives overlap with the end of the warlords' regime and overthrow of the Japanese occupation, violent struggles between the Kuomintang and the Communists to carve up China, and, most poignant for the author, the vicious cycle of purges orchestrated by Chairman Mao that discredited and crushed millions of people, including her parents.Includes black and white photographsFamily treeChronologyMap
language: English
title: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
titlecomplete: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
genres: Asian Literature, Biography, China, History, Autobiography, Historical, Asia, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 110275
places: China
awards: awardedAt: 694252800000
name: NCR Book Award, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: British Book Award
publisher: Flamingo