Wild swans
Subtitle: three daughters of China
By: Jung Chang.
Edition: 1st Anchor Books ed.
Publisher: Anchor Books; Anchor
Published: 1992
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780385425476
Subjects: Chang, Jung, 1952-; China -- Biography
Notes: "Anchor Worldviews books"--Half t.p.
Previously published: Simon & Schuster, 1991.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Author's note; title: Family tree; title: Chronology; title: Three-inch golden lilies  : concubine to a warlord general (1909-1933); title: Even plain cold water is sweet : my grandmother marries a Manchu doctor (1933-1938); title: They all say what a happy place Manchukuo is : life under the Japanese (1938-1945); title: Slaves who have no country of your own : ruled by different masters (1945-1947); title: Daughter for sale for 10 kilos of rice : in battle for a new China (1947-1948); title: Talking about love : a revolutionary marriage (1948-1949); title: Going through the five mountain passes : my mother's long march (1949-1950); title: Returning home robed in embroidered silk : to family and bandits (1949-1951); title: When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven : living with an incorruptible man (1951-1953); title: Suffering will make you a better communist : my mother falls under suspicion (1953-1956); title: After the anti-Rightist campaign no one opens their mouth : China silenced (1956-1958); title: Capable women can make a meal without food : famine (1958-1962); title: Thousand-gold little precious : in a privileged cocoon (1958-1965); title: Father is close, mother is close, but neither is as close as Chairman Mao : the cult of Mao (1964-1965); title: Destroy first, and construction will look after itself : the Cultural Revolution begins (1965-1966); title: Soar to heaven, and pierce the earth : Mao's Red Guards (June-August 1966); title: Do you want our children to become "Blacks"? : my parents' dilemma (August-October 1966); title: More than gigantic wonderful news : pilgrimage to Peking (October-December 1966); title: Where there is a will to condemn, there is evidence : my parents tormented (December 1966-1967); title: I will not sell my soul : my father arrested (1967-1968); title: Giving charcoal in snow : my siblings and my friends (1967-1968); title: Thought reform through labor : to the edge of the Himalayas (January-June 1969); title: The more books you read, the more stupid you become : I work as a peasant and a barefoot doctor (June 1969-1971); title: Please accept my apologies that come a lifetime too late : my parents in camps (1969-1972); title: The fragrance of sweet wind : a new life with The Electricians' Manual and Six Crises (1972-1973); title: Sniffing after foreigners' farts and calling them sweet : learning English in Mao's wake (1972-1974); title: If this is paradise, what then is hell? : The death of my father (1974-1976); title: Fighting to take wing (1976-1978); title: Epilogue