Author: JUNG CHANG:
Title: Wild Swans. Three Daughters of China. London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991.
Description: . Pp. 524, (1). Double page map and photo illustrations. Publisher's cloth. With pictorial dust wrappers (second state), unclipped. First edition. Inscribed in English by Jung Chang dated "4 June 1993" with her Chinese red seal. A pristine copy of this classic work, a life story of three generations of Chinese women in 20th century China. Jung Chang was born in China in 1952. During the Cultural Revolution (1966-76) she worked as a "barefoot" doctor, a steelworker, and more, before attending Sichuan University as an English-language student. She moved to the UK in 1978. The book became a popular bestseller worldwide, translated into many languages, and is still banned in China. It's a historically important book and a remarkable human document.

Keywords: East Asia, china, chine, chinese, literature, kina, biography, autobiography, novel,


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