Category - Non Fiction / Biography & Autobiography
Format - Paperback
Condition - Fair
Listed - A month ago
Ships From - California
Est. Publication Date - Aug 1992
Seller Description
Some staining on cover and first few pages Some folds on cover corners Spine is great and has all pages Flamingo, 1993, 696 pages Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is a family history that spans a century, recounting the lives of three female generations in China, by Chinese writer Jung Chang. First published in 1991, Wild Swans contains the biographies of her grandmother and her mother, then finally her own autobiography. Her grandmother had bound feet and was married off at a young age as the concubine of a high-status warlord. Chang's mother rose in status as a member of the Communist Party. Chang took part in the Cultural Revolution as a member of the Red Guards, but eventually her father was tortured and she was sent to the countryside for thought reform. Later, she earned a scholarship to study in England, where she still lives.
Additional Information
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
ISBN: 9780006374923
Publisher Description
A Chinese woman chronicles the struggle of her grandmother, her mother, and herself to survive in a China torn apart by wars, invasions, revolution, and continuing upheaval, from 1907 to the present.
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