Author: Jung Chang
Title: Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
Description: London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Jung Chang's influential personal history of China following three female generations. The first edition, sixteenth printing, of Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang's best selling and award winning biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century.This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The story starts with Chang's grandmother, who had bound feet and was a victim of child marriage. Then it tells her mother's experiences as a Communist Party member, leading on to Chang's autobiography, sharing tales of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards, and thought reform. Wild Swans was awarded the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. It has been translated into 37 different languages.Includes 32 illustrations, the majority of which are personal photographs.In original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper.Collated, complete. In original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Fine.
Keywords: Wild Swans Biography and autobiography Chinese History First edition Biography and autobiography Various
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Title: Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China
Description: London, Harper Collins Publishers, 1991. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of Jung Chang's influential personal history of China following three female generations. The first edition, sixteenth printing, of Wild Swans, Three Daughters of China, Jung Chang's best selling and award winning biographical account of life in China from three women; her grandmother, her mother, and herself, over the span of a century.This take on Chinese history tells the often untold experiences of women in the late nineteenth and twentieth century. The story starts with Chang's grandmother, who had bound feet and was a victim of child marriage. Then it tells her mother's experiences as a Communist Party member, leading on to Chang's autobiography, sharing tales of the Cultural Revolution, the Red Guards, and thought reform. Wild Swans was awarded the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. It has been translated into 37 different languages.Includes 32 illustrations, the majority of which are personal photographs.In original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper.Collated, complete. In original publisher's binding with original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Various. Fine/Fine.
Keywords: Wild Swans Biography and autobiography Chinese History First edition Biography and autobiography Various
Price: GBP 80.00 = appr. US$ 114.24 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 824W35
- Book number: 824W35
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