Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China

by Jung Chang | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0743246985 Global Overview for this book
Registered by wingmaryzeewing of Taneytown, Maryland USA on 3/5/2012
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Journal Entry 1 by wingmaryzeewing from Taneytown, Maryland USA on Thursday, August 23, 2012
I read this book on a bookray several years ago. I enjoyed it and I hope someone will enjoy this copy that I found recently at the Book Thing.

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Blending the intimacy of memoir and the panoramic sweep of eyewitness history, Wild Swans has become a bestselling classic in thirty languages, with more than ten million copies sold. The story of three generations in twentieth-century China, it is an engrossing record of Mao's impact on China, an unusual window on the female experience in the modern world, and an inspiring tale of courage and love.
Jung Chang describes the life of her grandmother, a warlord's concubine; her mother's struggles as a young idealistic Communist; and her parents' experience as members of the Communist elite and their ordeal during the Cultural Revolution. Chang was a Red Guard briefly at the age of fourteen, then worked as a peasant, a "barefoot doctor," a steelworker, and an electrician. As the story of each generation unfolds, Chang captures in gripping, moving - and ultimately uplifting - detail the cycles of violent drama visited on her own family and millions of others caught in the whirlwind of history.

Journal Entry 2 by wingmaryzeewing at Little Free Library at Finksburg Pharmacy in Finksburg, Maryland USA on Thursday, August 23, 2012

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