Fly, Wild Swans

My Mother, Myself and China

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<p><strong>THE INSTANT<em> SUNDAY TIMES</em> BESTSELLER</strong></p><p><strong>THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO <em>WILD SWANS</em>, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATION</strong></p><p><strong>A Book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph and Financial Times</strong></p><p><strong>'A must-read ... magnificent'</strong>DAILY TELEGRAPH *****</p><p><strong>'Beautiful and moving'</strong>ELIF SHAFAK, OBSERVER</p><p>Jung Chang's <em>Wild Swans</em> was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother - 'three daughters of China'. The book opens in 1909 with her grandmother's birth - and foot-binding - when China was under the last emperor, moving through Mao Zedong's rule, especially the Cultural Revolution during which Jung's parents were subjected to horrendous ordeals because of their courage. It finishes in 1978 when Deng Xiaoping officially ended the Mao era and started the 'reforms'. Jung, at that propitious juncture, became one of the first Chinese to leave Communist China for the West.</p><p>Nearly half a century on, China has risen from a decrepit and isolated state to a global power, the challenger to the United States' dominant position in the world. Through those decades, Jung's life has been intimately entwined with her native land. Her experiences dealing with the regime in those years were rich and revealing - especially so because all her books were (and are) banned.</p><p><em>Fly, Wild Swans</em> is the follow-up to Wild Swans and brings the story of Jung's family - along with that of China - up to date. The book is in many ways Jung's love letter to her mother. It is inevitably also about her grandmother and father, both of whom died tragically in the Cultural Revolution but are often recalled in this book. In fact, the past is never far away in Jung's subsequent life. It has shaped her, and moulded the present China, and what's more, it promises to herald the future.</p><p>China is now at

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780008661076

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

232 x 148 x 30 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2025

Verlag / Hersteller

Harper Collins Publ. UK