![]() ![]() In Wild Swans she casts light on why and how Mao was able to exercise such paralysing control over the Chinese people. Wild Swans won the 1992 NCR Book Award and the 1993 British Book of the Year. ![]() She came to Britain in 1978, and in 1982 became the first person from the People’s Republic of China to receive a doctorate from a British university. ![]() She was briefly a Red Guard at the age of fourteen, and then a peasant, a ‘barefoot doctor’, a steelworker and an electrician. Jung Chang was born in Yibin, Sichuan Province, China, in 1952. Needless to say that this is a harrowing book to read, but it’s also an eye-opener (for me at any rate) about what happened in China under Mao. Her family suffered atrociously, her father and grandmother both dying painful deaths and both her mother and father were imprisoned and tortured. It’s taken me a couple of months to read Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China (first published in 1991), Jung Chang’s book about her grandmother, her mother and herself, telling of their lives in China up to and during the years of the violent Cultural Revolution. ![]()
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