Wild Swans
ISBN: 9780007176151
Systematik: R 82
Verlag: London : Harper CollinsPublishers
Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
Schlagworte:
R 82
Chang, Jung:
Wild Swans : Three Daughters of China / Jung Chang. - London : Harper CollinsPublishers, 2004. - 666 S.
ISBN 9780007176151 Buch kt.
ENGLISCH ; ENGLISCH SPRACHE ; CHINA
Few books have ever had such an impact as Wild Swans. Since its first publication it has been translated into 30 languages and sold more than 10 million copies. Through the story of three generations of women in her own family - grandmother, mother and daughter- Jung Chang reveals the whole tragic history of China´s twentieth century.
Jung Chang´s grandmother´s feet were bound as a child, and she was given to a warlord general as a concubine. As the general lay dying, she fled with her infant daughter. That daughter grew up to become active in the Communist movement´s civil war against the Kuomintang. Following the Communist victory in 1949 she and her husband became senior officials. Jung Chang, their daughter, was raised in the privileged circles of China´s Communist elite, but was to take the unimaginable step of questioning Mao himself. Her parents were denounced and tortured, and she herself was exiled to the edge of the Himalayas.
von Jung Chang